As Within, So Without
It is Christmas Day, and I have just been out to the car park of the service station we are having a Christmas coffee in, to get my bag from the car…
I walked up and down, in and around all the cars… The rain was falling and the car park not even that full…
But could I find the car?
I could not….
I was sure I had looked where we parked it… I went further down to check, but the discomfort of getting wetter and a part of me that knew Anadi would ‘be able to find it for me’ led me back into the dry of Starbucks.
‘I can’t find it anywhere,..’
‘It’s over there’, Anadi laughed and gestured in the ‘over there’ direction… ‘Do you want me to find it…’
He was in the middle of a granola bar and a cup of tea…
‘No… ‘ I said resolutely ‘I will find it…’
I walked out again in the direction of ‘over there…’ And there was the car!
I was once again reminded that when we are searching and searching. it’s likely that what we are looking for is right beside us… Just ‘over there’, and that pressing pause and stopping the search is often the best thing we can do…
Staying looking and looking, while the rain falls down, and dampens our hope of ever finding what we want, is a sure way to stay never finding what is right there just beside us…
Everything is there, everything is here, everything is not only right beside us but within us, and all we need to do is to stop looking outwards and look within….
Sometimes it takes another soul to reflect the information back to us…
‘Its over there’,
And there it is
And there it was all along
Right beside us, right in front of us, all around us…
When we are looking and looking out there, it is time to stop, press pause and look within
As within, so without….
I have been running all of my life – it feels I was born to run. In the running step I experienced freedom and my true expression. I came to see that I needed to ‘get out of the way of myself’ and let my energy flow through the running step; allow it to express itself in the dance and the motion of running. I ran for England and GB for some years. My first international was in 1979, a three mile cross country race; and I continued to run at international level until 1993. Two of my best results were first place in the Dublin City Marathon in 1985 and 7th place woman, 3rd British woman in the 1986 London Marathon in a time of 2.36.31, which gained me selection for the Commonwealth Games.
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