Your words do me a great honor. I also appreciate you giving a fresh perspective to this matter — you always have a wonderful way of approaching the same thing from a different angle =)

And thanks for the input regarding the retreat — mayhaps I’ll have to give it more serious thought!

Sweetwater,
Kenton

Your gift is being able to see this from the “unawakened” perspective. You writing resonates with many because they feel you right beside.

The effort thing–for me, effort was necessary to see that it is not. When effort is given up, it is a gloriously freeing thing…awakening then deepens on its own, all we have to do is get out of the way.

Awakening as the other of asleep is an apt metaphor–perhaps a little upside down in that awakening=no-effort and being asleep=effort.

What you call ‘releasing into’ I call flow. I think it is the same as the athlete’s Zone, or when the music plays the musician, or Grace. It is the most natural, the most effortless we can be.

The wilderness retreat sounds great!

Thanks for another illuminating article.

k