The Life Beneath Your Life

There is a life that has been running beneath your life. Not hidden. Not secret. Only quieter than the one that takes up most of your hours.

You know it already, even if you have never named it. The moods that did not belong to any event. The tenderness that arrived for no reason. Something in you that continued, without asking permission.

It does not mind that you have often forgotten it. It is not hurt by your inattention. It does not keep score. The river is still beneath the path.

This is what La Flora attends to — the quieter life, the one underneath. Not to teach you anything, only to help you hear what is already there.

When you are ready, there is a meditation waiting. You might begin wherever it feels nearest, and let it meet you there.