When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds:
Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction
and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive,
and you discover yourself to be
a greater person by far then you
ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
In the every-day-ness of being with children, of stirring soup and washing sheets and sweeping and holding and reading to and wiping and negotiating and questioning and singing, I so easily lose site of what this is: an extraordinary project. I lose touch completely of the discovery of myself as a greater person than I thought. I face my own darkest, most vulnerable, wish-so-much-they-weren't-there parts of myself in the sharpness of some moments with these humans I adore so utterly. It is different than the rush of what work used to be. It is so much more and so much less at the same time. There are moments, though, when they are asleep and I take time to think of them, of our day together, when my consciousness does expand in every direction. It is when I sit still and notice what is here. It is this love which explodes something inside me. It is this love which places me in a new, great and wonderful world.
It is this love.
It is this love.
This mother love is everything.
Imagine giving some of this to everyone.
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