Thinking back to the Peter Seller's movie, 'Being There' and through the lines of the following, I rebuke myself at the many times in which I am not mostly nor fully present.
“Sometimes I am amazed when I realize how rarely I am where I am. More often than not, my body is in one place and my mind is in several others. That, I know, is energy diffused. But there are times when I can just be where I am and do what I am doing. There are times when I can just be where I am and do what I am doing. There are times when I am not engaged in maintaining a self-image – that is, when I am able just to do what needs to be done, and to forget myself in the doing; when I am not thinking at all about how I am doing or looking. When my energy is concentrated in the given of the moment, then it flows freely from the centre, without diversion into folds or side pockets. Then, I think, the light shines brightly. Then there is a kind of pure power in what is done . . .”
“Sometimes I am amazed when I realize how rarely I am where I am. More often than not, my body is in one place and my mind is in several others. That, I know, is energy diffused. But there are times when I can just be where I am and do what I am doing. There are times when I can just be where I am and do what I am doing. There are times when I am not engaged in maintaining a self-image – that is, when I am able just to do what needs to be done, and to forget myself in the doing; when I am not thinking at all about how I am doing or looking. When my energy is concentrated in the given of the moment, then it flows freely from the centre, without diversion into folds or side pockets. Then, I think, the light shines brightly. Then there is a kind of pure power in what is done . . .”
- Elaine M. Prevallet, S.L.
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