just be it Just Be It is a practice of presence that recognizes the limits of language. When aware of silence there is a state of inner still alertness. You are wholeheartedly present.

Mountains soften.

Rivers change their course.

Cities rise

and quietly fall.

Pause.

Even our names

will someday disappear

into the wide silence of time.

Pause.

So what is the rush?

Why the grasping hands?

Why the hardened opinions?

Why the endless hurry

through a world

that is already passing?

Pause.

Another breath in.

And out.

Pause.

If everything fades,

perhaps the invitation is simple.

Meet this moment

with stewardship.

Care for the soil.

Care for the waters.

Care for each other.

Pause.

Meet this moment

with compassion.

Not because things will last forever—

but because they will not.

Pause.

We cannot stop the fading.

But we can soften it.

We can let the world

fade more gently.

Pause.

One more breath.

In.

And out.

And simply rest

in this moment

that is here

for a little while