Comfort has a lot to do with just attendance to our needs - neither too little nor too much.
Spaciousness, calm and lightness define this removal of the too much.
Purity involves simplifying, decluttering, dropping baggage, streamlining efforts, getting to the point, knowing what matters, sifting through the noise, humming the nectar and leaving the rest.
It is a renunciation, a refusal to be swallowed by a perpetual quest which keeps us dissatisfied. Instead, we practice contentment and care for what is meaningful, we detach ourselves from the fluff, the spectacle, the legacy, and choose substance over flair.
Preserving a candid outlook on life feeds a healthy appetite for novelty, encounters and insights as well as what is true and right.
As we fine-tune our ability to trust ourselves, our fate and others, we discover what makes us unique, and come to value that enough to choose to act by it, to stand in our truth. Eventually we become good at being our divine selves in every moment.
Doing things well doesn’t have to mean doing them the hard way, and doing them fast doesn’t have to mean hastily.
Experience can teach us better ways to achieve better results, if we keep an open mind, and don’t let habits keep us stuck in the acceptable as opposed to the optimal way.
Streamlining is quiet strength, it is measured action applied to precise aims, it is exacting and no stranger to excellence.
The gift of streamlining is more energy, foresight and resources available for others, or other aims.
There is no merit in expanding a herd if we can't feed it. In adopting an expansive approach, or worse, in trying to govern external circumstances, we fail to attend properly to what we have, and deplete ourselves.
In focusing on caring for our assets - whether they be physical, emotional, spiritual -, we increase their worth, we keep our cup full, and only in those conditions do we have something to give.
Our connections fluctuate just like the rest of all things. The company we need now, the alliances that support and inspire us, the mentors and the challengers, come and go with circumstances.
Purity of heart and presence will free those untimely connections and attract the more serving ones, and then again.
Lack of company is no reason not to proceed, on the contrary, action will bring the right people on our path.
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Detours, adornments, hesitation only add to our effort for the same result.
Sugar-coating is a form of dishonesty, insisting means attempting control, and sticking to old habits holds cowardice. Those seeming good ideas clutter our space and blur our clarity, they take away our freedom and identity.
Letting go of these should’s, wishful attachments, and unnecessary miseries inevitably brings and attracts joy.
We’re told to be wary of what is too good to be true. This apprehension can keep us away from both doing what is right and trusting others’ intentions.
But fate favours the pure, those who act in good faith and practice fairness. Opportunities to choose rightness over pettiness are cosmic gifts, invitations to shift the currents towards love.
When the heart leads the way, placing justice and harmony above fears, everything is righted in the end. While it’s not right, it’s not the end.
The purer the state, the harder it to refine further. In the last stages of purification, the approach become more subtle and exacting, the pace slows.
Progress is less spectacular, but more commendable. The barer, more precise balance and structure are an achievement
Inevitably, the moment comes when cycle reverses, and the decluttered, open, lightened substance becomes the foundation for right expansion.
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