I like the night, without the night we would never see the stars. Stephanie Meyer
This week marked the passing and burial of HRM Queen Elizabeth. An icon, the like of which we will never see again in our lifetime. She exemplified stability, and lived a life of servant leadership guided by deeply embedded values of family and duty.
Her passing combined with the hint of all quarantine measures for incoming passengers into HK being lifted soon is momentous. How fitting today is the fall equinox when day equals night.
The metaphor of a circle symbolises the changing of seasons, stages of life, etc. The opposite sides represent polarities such as dawn and dusk, birth and death and as the circle turns, (earth spins), we move from one stage to another. You can't control the perpetual forward momentum ..it is like a rollin stone.
Too often we fixate only on the light without appreciating the dark. Too often we try to control the passage of time without embracing the freedom of a few grey hairs or wrinkles.
This week reflect on the polarities of your life, identify tension from when you hold on to habits and ways of being that may not serve you now. Seek out the polarities and realise that Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
A time to turn inwards, to reflect
Every leaf speaks bliss to me fluttering from the autumn tree. E. Bronte
Today we celebrate the fall equinox, when the length of the day equals night. It signals the changing of seasons and turn inwards. We begin a time of darkness, of contemplation and of rest.
I invite you to reflect with gratitude and Find contentment by paying attention to what we already have. Anon Take a lesson from nature. Trees show us how lovely it is to get rid of old things. Anon And remember life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the air. FS Fitzgerald
Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature. F. Nietzche. Take this time to realign to your purpose and allow your inner light to shine as the sun recedes.
Listen to words penned 3000 years ago and brought to life by the Byrds, To every season turn turn turn…
Lessons in the Clouds
Children spend hours lying on the grass gazing at the ever changing sky. Clouds float in the same pattern only once. Wayne Shorter.
Remember the excitement of identifying a shape and then watching it transform in seconds before anyone else could see it?
Clouds resemble thoughts.
Both change from one second to another. Mehmet Murat ildan
In yoga we understand the impermanence of life. Once we accept the inevitability of change we become like clouds.
They don’t overthink; they just drift. Avijeet Das
You are the sky, everything else is just the weather. Pema Chodron
This week I invite you to be fully present and take the advice of Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Having your head in the clouds, even for just a few minutes each day, is good for your mind, good for your body, and good for your soul.
Your sound track this week is Clouds by Zach Sobiech. Diagnosed with a rare form of cancer with months to live he chose to spend time with his family and compose songs. Inspired, last year Disney released a movie of his life by the same name.
Facing the Future
My lips are chapped from the winds of change. Sarah Vowell
Slowly restrictions are being lifted and we emerge to a new way of being. Social distancing is a norm so is the taking of temperatures, zoom calls, alcohol gel and wearing a mask in public. I look towards the future, dwelling in possibility. Emily Dickinson for it is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman
We can choose to face to the future with apprehension or anticipation. Jim Rohn. Robert Frost says, in three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life. It goes on.
Winston Churchill said it was wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. This is particularly true given the the fluidity of change. The same winds blow on all of us. of disaster, opportunity and change. It is not the blowing of the wind but how we set our sails that makes the difference. Jim Rohn
This week I invite you to accept the past without regrets, the present with confidence and the future without fear anon.The past can't be changed but the future is in your power. Mary Pickford for there are far better things ahead than what we leave behind. CS Lewis