It’s taken me over half a century to to recognize that busyness is an addiction.  Every once in awhile I think about retirement and how surely that will be when I can commit myself to meditation, to stillness, to doing nothing. But if I’m really honest with myself, I could make those commitments now. The problem is that I’m addicted to doing.

Tara Brach’s four-minute video is the antidote for me.  As she so beautifully reminds us in this video, in Chinese the word for busy is the same word for heart-killing. Taking four minutes each day as a “sacred pause” could arguably be one of the easiest routes to “saging.”

Click on the above to witness a demonstration of ageless talent. This woman is purportedly in her 80’s. Here’s to living our passions!