The Sanctuary of Value & Love

​Serenity & Patience
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To feel beauty one must have
an unconditional love for how life shows up
in this very moment, no matter what it is. 
To feel honor, one does what feels right,
no matter what others say. 
This is the test of one’s conviction
and the courage of presence.
Serenity

Nothing needs doing.
Nothing needs fixing.
Nothing to want.
Nothing to be.

Coming home to your sacred source.
Your sanctuary of inner calm.
A circle of making peace with yourself.
Finding refuge in release of all.

Clearing the window of being 
so all is transparent.
No longer outside of the flow,
yet life flow moving through you.

Your sanctuary is external peace.
Knowing all is perfect.
All is cared for.
As you bathe in the light of equanimity.
Serenity is an internal peace, a feeling, that exhibits itself outwardly as the action of patience. When your sacred sanctuary moves through the day with you, you sense peace in every moment. This peace feels as though all is right and perfect as it is. 
Your personal perspective and limited vision may block from your view all that is actually happening in this moment. The meanings, causalities, and players may be obscured. But for yourself, you realize that you don’t need to know why or how it all works, just that it does and in ways beyond your understanding.
Knowing the physics of hydrodynamics does little in your enjoyment of boating a set of mountain river rapids. Yet, knowing the feeling of the flow in those rapids, yields excitement in being in the flow. You relax into that flow and play – play with that moment. 
Serenity requires no understanding. It is a feeling, a knowing beyond knowledge, that the natural world is as it should be. And it is the comprehension that our desire and impatience to control this world is what creates our strife and disharmony. This comes, not from the world as it is, but from our illusions about what it is. 
Patience

Restless, we endure time passing.
Fearful, we foresee the next moment.
Angry, we fault our one chance.
Greedy, we race to the last edge.

Like rain falling into the stream.
The stream flows into the river, 
in its own time, carrying all rain droplets along.
Returning to the sea to become rain again.

There is a natural pace, a rhythm,
to the journey with no effort.
It flows where it has always,
in a way that works and abides.

There is no place to hurry to.
All that is, takes you down the stream,
to journey, again and again.
At peace with that understanding.
Our impatience comes from our desire to control, to make things happen on our personal schedule. We think that impatience will bring  us what we want...right now! It is an action in the world with expected results that are not supported by reality. 
Impatience simply manifests stress as we push against the flow of the stream of natural harmony, instead of relaxing into and navigating the stream. Desire drives us to stress, as a storm drives wild horses to the cliff. It accelerates until we have lost a sense of where we are and what we are doing. 
Patience comes from the wisdom that the universe has a natural flow and rhythm. It creates itself in an unhurried fashion. A garden will only grow as fast as is natural for it. We try to force its time line and modify its DNA to make it behave to our impatient plan.
We sacrifice this moment, our opportunity to live, love and serve each other. We occupy our time trying to make the world march to our demands. When we have minor apparent successes, we become arrogant, thinking we finally have control of ourself, our life, our family, the world. What is lost is our sense of what is of value and that the value is in this moment, not out in the future. We sacrifice our now for a mythical future.