No, my soul is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches,
its eyes wide open
far-off things, and listens
at the shores of the great silence.
— Antonio Machado
According to sociologist and life coach Martha Beck, the first step in attending to our joy is to cultivate a place of stillness.
Only once in contact with the still core of the self can we begin to access a sense of what might give that self the joy it needs.
What would it take for you create a place so guarded from interruption that
you might find Machado's "shores of the great silence," in which
your soul can come alive?
This Sunday, we'll explore the beginnings of a recipe for joy,
accompanied by special music selections from Helen Kho.
