I used to listen a lot to David Whyte's audio books, "Clear Mind, Wild Heart" my constant companion on road trips until, finally, I felt I'd absorbed it enough to stop listening for a while.
In one scene, he tells about a time when he felt "totally exhausted," so much so that he staggered into a room of other people and asked, "Has anyone seen David?"
Since he himself, the asker, was David, his friends looked at him as if he might have misplaced his mind!
He went home to rest and have a glass of wine with an older friend. As they visited he told his friend about his exhaustion. "What is the cure for exhaustion?" David asked his friend.
Without missing a beat, his friend responded, "Wholeheartedness."
On that note, thanks to you, Pam, for sharing this morning an excerpt from a book by Pema Chodrin this morning!
"Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably. In doing that, you again and again encounter your own uptightness, your own headaches, your own falling flat on your face. But in wholeheartedly practicing and wholeheartedly following that path, this inconvenience is not an obstacle. It’s simply a certain texture of life, a certain energy of life."
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