Pressing the "Pause" button

We have hit a point in our refurbishment plan where for the first time in weeks we have no workmen here, no mess, no noise, no strangers… Not only that but it is that time in our business cycle where many of our clients have gone off for the summer, it feels as if some great cosmic digit has pressed my ‘pause‘ button. That is no bad thing.  It is a bit like the amber traffic signal, which gives us a moment between the two binary extremes of Stop & Go.

The Buddhists believe that one can experience God in the gap between breathing in and breathing out. Winter can be considered the time between Autumn’s fruitfulness and Spring’s new growth. 

Just being in this paused state is quite restful if one doesn’t feel obliged to fight its energy and try to make things happen. 

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”   Mark Twain

“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”   Guillaume Apollinaire

Tags: gaps, inaction, pause

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