Safety

The bright orange colour of the life ring is the international colour of safety and visibility. I’ve always believed that safety is an “inside job” and if we don’t feel safe deep within ourselves, no amount of locks, chains, guards or bolts will ever make us feel safe.

"Safety does not lie in contraction. Something has gone awry because you have believed that contraction could make you safe. Now practice the opposite. Start believing that it is expansion that will make you safe, and then be the observer. You can find a hundred ways to expand every day. Just try it. In the midst of something that looks frightening, start expanding with your breath. The natural act of filling your lungs with air will straighten your spine and extend your chest. Then you will be 'leading with the heart.' And the heart is where you feel the love."

"When you wake up every morning, plant this statement deeply inside your awareness: "As much as I am able this day, I will go within, ask and listen; and I am going to trust and risk by doing what I feel to be true. Thus, I will follow the response rather than the safety of my habitual patterns".

From the Heart of a Gentle Brother – Mary Margaret Moore