"And she danced; she danced with the music and the rhythm of earth's circles; she turned with the earth turning, like a disk, turning all faces to light and darkness evenly, dancing towards daylight." House of ****** Anais Nin

"What one constantly needs to be aware of, and always forgets, is that in the ordinary state one is cut off from the Real, from the energy that will give clarity, meaning and sense to one's life. Out of vanity, desire, laziness and fear, one lives isolated from the great reservoir of Being, in an isolated and very small chunk of being called myself. None of one's activities, no honour, no pleasures, mean anything if one is cut off from the only thing that gives real meaning." Ravindra, Heart without Measure, p 128. "Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes." Euripedes

[photo www.seekextreme.com]. The image of a surfer is a great metaphor for much of what effective 'work' requires. A connection to that "great reservoir of Being", comes about to the extent that we allow it to. It happens... if, in this present moment, we truly want it more than the egoic falsity our 'sleep' has habituated us to. It is only a ceaseless work with attention, of the most subtle sort which can enable this. Notice too, that the surfer rides that wave with joy. It is his passion to be there... so in undertaking the self-observational, attentional work of 'waking up', we need to do so with a gentle self affection. Always delicately impartial to what is observed... while liking the actual seeing.