How to Be Fully Awake Instead of Living on Autopilot
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” ~Pema Chodron
It’s tempting. Staying in the nest means life feels safe and we are protected. If we get thrown out of the nest we either stretch our new wings and fly or plummet to the ground.
Flight poses new challenges. How do we embrace spaciousness when we desire solidity? How do we stay aloft and open?
A friend of mine recently showed me a nest of robin’s eggs. Beautiful, blue like the sky, and full of bright possibility, we admired the …
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