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Dec 14, 2024
"If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life." --Thich Nhat Hanh
Tracy Cochran: Coming Home to Yourself
Editorial Director of Parabola magazine and author of Presence: The Art of Being at Home in Yourself shares one nourishing story after another. In one, she speaks of her 93-year-old father: “He was going to make dinner for my sister and I, and had to keep resting, having oxygen. When I tried to help, he said, ‘Tracy, the secret of life I’ve found, is to notice what brings you joy and love, and let things take as long as they take.’” A stirring conversation with Tracy Cochran sharpens our capacity to listen to the space between notes in the silent symphonies streaming across the background of each day.
BE THE CHANGE
If, at any time in one's ordinary day, the thought comes up of simply being present with what's happening in myself, take that risk. Just let be what's there. Can I let go of trying to change it and meet it with interest and compassion?
