your daily rock : be fully alive

March 22, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ” -Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

What does it mean to be fully alive?

I think it means to feel everything you feel, without asking “why” too much. We live so much in our heads–let’s let ourselves be fully embodied instead.

Focus on feeling today. Fly from the nest.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.