Extract 25 From What Changes

It is amazing how the mind and emotions can take us on a journey In a few moving deeply into some doubt Or insecurity, vulnerability Or overwhelmed, weak, inner crumbling Feel it fully Why not? This is reality And then, when the feelings are still strong This sense of nothing moving Nothing has moved Nothing changed All as it was Everything returning to balance There’s nothing wrong with these thoughts and feelings It just means we’re human! But the difference is, not lingering Not staying there, or not choosing to stay there Even if those difficult feelings remain It’s accepting, but also more than that Maybe it’s trust? A trust that isn’t shaken Despite what is passing through us It’s the same with feelings of elation It passes through And we return to balance Nothing moved Nothing changed The rootedness is deeper than this Is unmoved Fully experiencing it all But also….just watching Knowing there is a deeper truth A more grounded place From where it is possible to feel the fullness of human life Yet also……just watching There is a lightness And at the same time a deep connectedness Our spirit is light Our body is connected The beauty is in the balance of the two Each of us is this The seen and the unseen The movement, the involvement And that which watches One is not real and the other unreal Both are real But only when they come together is there the understanding of that It’s not that one is active and the other passive They belong together, when we are active and also when we are passive And everywhere in between We are both spirit and material And they were never separate