Something is given

three garlic scapes in a small round vase on a wooden table

…if one looks long enough at almost anything, looks with absolute attention at a flower, a stone, the bark of a tree, grass, snow, a cloud, something like a revelation takes place. Something is “given”…

This passage is from May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude. It’s a lovely one to relate to your movement practice.

When your attention is directed toward your internal sensations and experience, what is given?

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