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“Believe me, you don’t have to know.
Not so much that you render yourself helpless.
Helpless in the face of what Life brings next.
So make peace with knowing very little.
About Love.
About Others.
About how life should be.
Make amends with how things are.
Not knowing a thing,
walk with gentle knees,
ready to drop to them, at any moment
that Life dictates it.
Keep an empty hand
so that it can be brought to your heart
when a grief arrives.
Make up a bed that you can fall into
as your own, comforting arms.
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We come to find, that Life is mostly quiet.
It asks us to live by our Knowing, while
surrendering that very same thing.
It vibrates easily around us,
candid and benevolent.
You see, it’s only
when we root ourselves solid in some knowing again,
that Life seems to have to shout –
rises,
lovingly,
from Its whisper.”
~Em Claire ˜Life Is Mostly Quiet’ ©2008 “ All Rights Reserved
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barefootmama says:
Feb 28, 2012
Beautiful words and image…
Sirona says:
Apr 17, 2012
One of the gifts of the Internet age is facing our limitations in the face of so much information. This gives my students a very concrete sense of not knowing, of searching, of figuring out “what is truth.” It frustrates them until they come to a place of acceptance that they cannot know everything and that there are many ways of seeing.
Julie says:
Nov 15, 2012
Lovely words and that is life’s beauty – the not knowing! We don’t have to know all we need to do is learn to trust! Learning to trust in higher power is the key.
Janis says:
Jun 2, 2014
MM Again thank you for being here and giving so willingly to help others thru these times of growth and insights. How apropos this reading is for today. I have been doing everything thing I can to live with this way /truth of being, very challenging. But the gifts have been beautiful and wonderful in the last 4 years (my whole life really) have given me for living like this.
THANK YOU Mama, thank you, now I am crying, blessings
janis says:
Jun 2, 2014
Living in the acceptance of “don’t know mind” has been an epic gift, challenging none the less. No other way to be except in my heart.
Cheers, and tears
Peace