Practicing Peace

There is power in a simple question.

The question above is one that centers the group of people that I’m with this week. I appreciate the guiding to something deep within me and within us as humans living now.

There is flow in the question above. With nuance, it points to wishing to be cooperative with life, with people, with ourselves, and with circumstance. That is different than controlling and imposing.

I continue to learn that life mixes it all. It isn’t just one of the other. And when it is, that is more about choice that circumstance.

It remains compelling to me, to practice ways of being that bring more consciousness, and kindness, and harmony. And it remains compelling to me to be able to pivot with such practice to the issues of our times in work and in community, bringing more awareness and more joy, more healing and more wholeness.

So on we go, many of us, experimenting our ways to more peaceful communities, teams, endeavors, in mysteries, yet in contribution.

And in questions that guide it all.

One Reply to “Practicing Peace”

  1. “wishing to be cooperative with life, with people, with ourselves, and with circumstance”

    to be, perhaps, in a collaborative relationship with all of that … the key element, to be in relationship with …

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