Meditation – Page 3 – Laurie's Notes

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As It Was

February 4, 2017February 4, 2017 Laurie's Notes

Healing became

less of something

to figure out

after a while.

It began to feel

more like a sacred

journey

as I began to place

my focus

more and more

in my heart.

Instead of trying

so hard to create,

I began to notice

the natural way

I was pulled to

notice life

around me

and inside.

I found myself

holding and letting go

of all that crossed

my path —

as the two became one

delicate movement.

Quiet prayers

were whispered

and symptoms disappeared.

But by that time,

it didn’t really

matter so much

exactly what happened

on the surface

because there was

something tender

in meeting life

exactly as it was.

Quieting

Hope

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 Laurie's Notes

I found it wasn’t

so much that I was

broken.

It was that I felt

disconnected

from my own true

voice —

lost in an ocean

of thoughts

and shoulds.

But there was a subtler

knowing from a little

deeper place

that never gave up

hope.

Quieting

Along the Way

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 Laurie's Notes

I found it was

possible to find

our way back

to our hearts.

I found that,

for every single

thing I gave up

along the way,

for every broken dream

and every person

I couldn’t reach,

there was an expansion

of the tender space

I had come to know

as the source

of true peace,

connection,

and happiness.

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Silent Reverence

January 16, 2017January 16, 2017 Laurie's Notes

I began to have

a different relationship

with my experiences.

They had become

precious pieces

within a deeper flow,

a way to listen

to life

that led most gently

back to the silent

reverence

within my own

untamed heart.

Quieting

Softened

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 Laurie's Notes

In this

softened light

and standing firmly

in my heart,

I thought

just maybe being brave

meant stepping back

to peek behind

what seemed to be

so shattered.

Perhaps

we weren’t as broken,

good or bad

or disconnected

as our minds

had made us out

to be.

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Forgotten

January 14, 2017January 14, 2017 Laurie's Notes

As if by candlelight

and following

a whispered prayer,

I set out

to find my heart again.

Determined as I was

to mark the path,

I held that light

a little higher

somewhere along the way.

And in that instant,

it seemed it wasn’t

that we had strayed

so far,

but that we had forgotten

we could change

the lighting

of this place.

Quieting

Something Real

January 13, 2017January 13, 2017 Laurie's Notes

It happened subtly

at first.

Thoughts and ideas

and all those many

images and words

about how

we should be

and how

things had been

began to fade —

just enough

to let in

something unexpected —

an original thought,

a genuine expression,

a little breathing space —

a tender interaction

almost missed —

the serenity we felt

as we didn’t grasp.

Maybe it was us

who dared to

turn away

in search of

something real.

Waiting for Words

Without Words

January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 Laurie's Notes

There was peace

in being

without words —

allowing

all that was

too much

to be —

waiting for

a more subtle message

to form —

wating for our hearts

to speak.

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Gently Guided

January 5, 2017 Laurie's Notes

I found safety

in the natural way

I began to explore

myself and the world

around me.

I began to use thought

as a kind of safety net,

an intimate way

of staying grounded

and allowing myself

to be gently guided —

returning safely

again and again

to this quiet space

where I first waited

for my heart to speak

in a way I could

understand.

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Nothing Left

December 25, 2016December 26, 2016 Laurie's Notes

Without a solid sense

of a fragmented self

once held in place

by overthinking

and figuring out,

the pull was to seek out

quiet space

in which to transform

experience back into

prayer —

deeply honoring

all that was left

unresolved on the surface —

gently pointing

back to the space

within my heart

because there was

nothing left

to block the way.