for Marcia especially, regarding bathroom cleaning

[Guest guest]

The true task of spiritual life

is not found in faraway places

or unusual states of consciousness.

It is here in the present.

It asks of us a welcoming spirit

to greet all that life presents to us

with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart.

We can bow to both beauty and suffering,

to our entanglements and confusion,

to our fears and to the injustices of the world.

Honoring the truth in this way is the path to

freedom.

 

~ Jack Kornfield