Peaks and Valleys - February 9, 2018

Internet photo of China's Rainbow Mountains

My experiences contain troughs of despair, anxiety, grief, and resistance as well as peaks of ecstasy, grace, and beauty, and everything between.

Yet something remains constant in that ever changing gripping experience, something stable, peaceful, and intimate ... the source of me-ness.

The way in to noticing this realization for me is often pain, usually psychic or emotional, but can also be beauty and ecstasy which can help me realize the nearness of these poles, seeming opposites yet both vehicles for taking me back, letting me fall into is more apt, the vastness of simply being aware.