your daily rock : turn off the autopilot

March 9, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.” -Pema Chodron

“Autopilot” is a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness, a state in which you stay in the nest.

Have you ever done that? Perhaps autopilot is something as simple as driving home from work and finding yourself at the last stop light without realizing how you got there. Or waking up one morning to the realization that you’ve been sleep-walking through your life.

Let’s turn off the autopilot today. Be fully here, completely awake. Fling yourself out of 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.