In This Moment

It’s been an emotional week for many of us. So today I’m focusing on being here now…

What do you see in this moment? And what do you hear? Is your stomach grumbling? What do you feel? Do you have an itch somewhere or pain in some area of your body? Can you simply sit and be with whatever is present? And can you feel the beauty and wonder of the world even through all of your pain and sorrow?

Mud of the Moment

Truth lives in the mud

of this moment. It exists

in the messy interplay of

emotions and relationship,

in the personality traits

I’d rather leave behind.

To experience truth

doesn’t take sainthood,

or dissolving my desires.

It requires diving into

the muck and mire of

what’s here, feeling

the anxiety or fear,

knowing the entirety

of me without hiding

from the shadows or

from light.

Choosing to be whole,

awareness makes the

leap to see that I am

truth — always was,

and always will be —

the radiant singularity,

the infinite in human

form. The lotus never

blooms without

sinking roots in mud.

— Danna Faulds