watching a candle
illuminate a dark space
quietens my soul
Alongside a quiet watching there’s quite often a quiet listening – and we may thereby find ourselves ‘illuminated’ inside and out.
Several times today I have come across observations about the high state of anxiety that afflicts vast swathes of our humankind.
Human anxiety often arises from an acute sense of helplessness – our inability to change innumerable situations we dearly wish could be changed.
My mental chatter exacerbates anxiety and does little or nothing to help anyone. So I seek, and invite others to seek, quietening from a candle.
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It would be wonderful if one (me) had the attention span to invoke the stillness in staring at a candle, without the presence of the candle…to retrieve the picture without its physical presence. I find the same calm when looking at our fireplace when lit. Our objective I think, is to find the calmness of a flickering candle whenever the anxiety is too much to bear…xx
Hey Mimi. Having just responded to this with a longer than usual note which appears to have been lost in the ether, I’m smilingly wondering if the universe is telling me not to be so long-winded! I won’t try to replicate what I thought I’d posted, but will say, following your appreciated email this morning, that I intend to read Christof Koch’s ‘The Feeling Of Life Itself.’ Thank you, as ever, for sharing your loving reflections with me 🙂🙏xx
It is reciprocal, dear friend..xx