From the Anna K Tarot, the Two of Swords; from the Meditation Cards, "Softening:"
If most of us had a decision to make or problem to solve and were given Emerson's advice to "adopt the pace of nature," we'd choose the speed of a cheetah or a peregrine falcon. We've been brainwashed into believing that a patient pause is not a virtue but a vice. Yet stress not only constricts the muscles, it also narrows the mind. We imagine solutions and choices to be an either-or category without any other possibilities. However the Softening card suggests another alternative:
When we feel our bodies tighten, when we see our minds freeze, we can begin to soften and relax.
~ Pema Chodron
All fixed ideas and sense of “self” become “forgotten”—in other words, softened, dissolved, dropped away, expanded to include all that is.
~ Susan Murphy Roshi
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