There is a mountain ridge above Lake Lure, here in Western North Carolina, that people call the Sleeping Lady. Trace the line of the peaks against the sky and you can see her: the silhouette of a woman resting on her side, laid out across the horizon near Chimney Rock and the Hickory Nut Gorge. She has been there the whole time, but most people drive past and never see her, because you only notice the figure when you slow down and actually look.
That is the part that stays with me. Nothing about the mountain changes when you finally see her.
The only thing that changes is your attention. What was always there simply becomes visible the moment you give it your full focus.
So much of life works this way. We move through our days at speed, attention split in ten directions, and we miss what is right in front of us. Spirit often reaches us in that same quiet register. Not as something loud that demands to be noticed, but as something steady and already present, waiting for us to grow still enough to sense it.
As many of you know, I spent a long part of my life in finance, and I still love business strategy and the way all the pieces come together. But the work of the soul changed me, and it helped me recognize that beneath the practical layers of life there is a deeper one, a place where the soul knows more than the mind can explain. Learning to see that layer is not about trying harder. It is about paying closer attention to what is already there.
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This Week's Spiritual Practice: Focus and Attention
This week, practice the same kind of seeing that lets you find the Sleeping Lady in the ridgeline. Give one thing your full attention and notice what becomes visible when you do.
Once a day, choose one small ordinary task and do it with your complete attention, nothing else. Washing a dish. Walking to the mailbox. Drinking your morning coffee. Put the phone down, let the background noise fall away, and simply be with that one thing while you do it.
As you begin, take one slow breath in, let it out gently, and say quietly to yourself: "For this moment, this is the only thing I am doing." Then let yourself be fully there.
You do not need to make anything happen. You are only practicing the art of looking closely, the same steadiness of attention that lets you notice what has been present all along.
Do this once a day for seven days, and at the end of each one, write down a single word for what you noticed when you slowed down: clearer, calmer, present, steady, awake, quiet, or whatever comes naturally.
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