Though I was always technically with myself, I realized that I often was actually distant from my immediate experience: distracting myself, zoning out, worrying about the future, feeling depressed, worried about the past, detaching to avoid processing painful emotions. I would be wandering several feet away from the present moment and what I felt i...
Instead of being a trip, it’s a daily ritual. When I wander away from myself, it’s a way to return.
“the body is a story and it can be read.”
I worried that I was doomed to be someone who started projects and abandoned them, someone who couldn’t stick with one thing for a long time. The cure to that, it turns out, is simply being consistent—finding something you like and doing it repetitively.
That Ram Dass line: we are all just walking each other home.
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