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#SensingAwareness

Sensing a changed quality in awareness. Often described as the feeling of being ‘at one’ with nature, oneself and others.

We often slip quickly into thinking about ‘things’, or thinking about or experience of things. #SensingAwareness is more about being in a state of awareness of direct experience, mindfulness. The Divine in the world, creating and sustaining all things in being.

The Christian tradition would perhaps describe this as Christfulness.

The voice of God in stone is saying solid

The strength of heaven,
The light of the sun,
The radiance of the moon,
The splendour of fire,
The speed of lightning,
The swiftness of wind,
The depth of the sea,
The stability of the earth,
The firmness of rock.

From St Patricks Breastplate, one version here

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[…] The Hymn is Icelandic, and as one who smiths it particularly resonates with me. Whether surrounded by the green, or industry in a railway station, or in a building built to glorify the Divine, I suspect that the beginning of inheriting the richness of prayer is to stop and sense a changed quality of awareness. […]

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