Changing focus

This press of time we humans seem born into, how often do we walk or worked rushed, absorbed in thought as beauty bursts forth unrecognized?

“Stop and tarry”, I say.

Admittedly, it is hard to see the rainbow when standing directly beneath its arching grandeur, but the point I want to make is that our intense focus to get from A to B can deny us from seeing what is actually happening under our noses, or behind us, or in the sky above, or…

or to the left on the rocks 20 metres below the cliff we’re standing on where the power of an incoming wave wells up to break in dramatic fashion.

Soften the gaze, open up to the wider scheme of things. Shift focus; change direction. Then, bring one’s attention to detail.

We set the pace.
But this press of time —
take it as a little thing
next to what endures.

All this hurrying
soon will be over.
Only when we tarry
do we touch the holy.

Rumi