Practicing

There is so much practicing these days. Practicing patience. Practicing gratitude. Practicing wonder. Practicing awe. Practicing stillness. What would it look like if these weren’t dualistic? If practicing gratitude did not mean that one had to stop what one is doing and practice gratefulness, but rather, as a baseline condition, just be grateful. Same for awe, stillness, patience and all of those good virtues we are taught. We unnecessarily complicate things when we separate them from ourselves. The thing does not have to be a thing where we add wonder; we just have to walk in wonder all the time. We need to stop being tasked with reminding ourselves all the time, and rather just be that thing.