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Frank Verkley's avatar

Concern is your concession to unconsciousness, someone said and I agree. Concern is busybodiedness. Waking up is about waking myself up. That’s where to put my attention.

Now you're taking my language.

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Sue Burrell's avatar

Hi Andrew, I agree, and there is a big 'But' hovering there in my mind - that driven sense of feeling like I have to 'do' something, even if it is just worry, is almost inescapable. What you wrote reminds me of Brother Lawrence's book - 'Practising the Presence of God', so it is a good reminder, that the 'work', if it can be called that, is to just be present, to my own self, and sense of being. And that does take some focus, or Focusing, or Presencing, because it is not a common thing to do in our Western world, at least.

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