Readings week of March 9th.

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses

*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*

Monday, March 9th

Reading: “Joy is not a heightened state of happiness—it's entirely different. It's an experience of communion, of "being one with" beyond the boundaries of self, of interbeing Joy is a sensation of our entire being, difficult to describe in words but similarly felt whenever we experience it. Strangely, the experience of joy often feels the same as sadness. In my experience both joy and sadness feel like an embrace of my whole being. I feel energy beyond what my physical body can contain, yet it does. I am laughing. I am crying. I am doing both simultaneously. It doesn't matter what I name it. I am fully alive, fully present.” — Margaret J. Wheatley, Who Do We Choose to Be?

Chant: You the One, One in All, say I Am, I Am You 

— The Oriental Orthodox Order in the West

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