Unconditioned

Listen to this if you have a complicated relationship with practicing gratitude and learn how to turn a robotic gratitude practice into an embodied one. 

In this podcast, I share the evolution of my relationship with gratitude from a pretentious one -> a complete separation -> to now an embodied practice. 

The poem mentioned in the podcast from Rilke's book of hours:

How surely gravity's law, 

strong as an ocean current

takes hold of even the smallest thing

and pulls it toward the heart of the world

Each thing

each stone, blossom, child

is held in place

only we, in our arrogance, 

push out beyond what we each belong to

for some empty freedom

If we surrender to earth's intelligence 

we could rise up rooted, like trees

Instead, we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making.

and struggle, lonely and confused

So, like children, we begin again.

to learn from the things, 

because they are in God's heart

they have never left him

This is what the things can teach us

to fall

patiently to trust our heaviness, 

Even a bird has to do that 

before he can fly