Thread by @Jeanvaljean689

Here's an interesting paradox, courtesy of David Whyte:

The deeper your commitment to the principles in your life, the more fluid life starts to feel.

True commitment often doesn't mean rigidity, it's more likely to result in flow and movement.

Commitment is liberating.

More brilliance from David Whyte on generosity in relationship

Learning to be generous with yourself ... for some of us, that's the hard part.

3/ Gratitude can be understood as a particular form of attention, one that unites awareness and appreciation in an open ended way.

In this sense it can absolutely be considered a practice, like meditation or prayer (though it's also not exactly the same as either of these).

Speaking of gratitude, there's a fine drizzle in the air in Oakland, CA, today.

It's barely there... just a few droplets... but it makes the air feel fresh and clean, and it's AMAZING.

Opening windows today.

Wow, that feels good.

It's green air quality for miles.

4/ "To hate our procrastinating tendencies is to hate our relationship with time itself" - David Whyte

5/ "any creative frontier is in its essence a conversational frontier"

First, a conversation within ourselves;

Then, that conversation carried into the broader world.

6/ "an endeavour achieved without delay ... is a bagatelle"

(NTSF, use "bagatelle" more often in casual conversation)

7/ This one is solid gold:

"Procrastination does not stop a project from coming to fruition; what stops us is giving up on an original idea because we have not got to the heart of the reason we are delaying, nor let the true form of our reluctance instruct us on the way ahead."

8/ my most Twitter-relevant David Whyte quote yet...

Note, he doesn't oversimplify by saying "distraction bad, focus good"...

Instead I think he suggests that both distraction and focus are necessary parts of the "dance of purpose".

May your distractions be worthy of you!