Etsy

An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Tuesday, January 31, 2006

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Dreams have been pretty non-sensical. Had another 'scary' dream last night. The 'monster' was the sound in my ear (that high pitched frequency I hear during meditation). Try to wrap your head around that one :P There has been an increase of 'activity' in the left hand and foot. Numbness in both, tingling and currents of energy roar through my left hand. Lots of tenderness (not sure what else to call it) along the mid section of my spine as well. Tension building in my neck. Following any dream is worse, as I always wake up in the middle of the night. My body feels as though it has literally been through the ringer.

Concentration in meditation is increasing. The lights that sparkled during meditation, now appear whenever I close my eyes. Will soon have completed the 3rd Jhana. Nice and steady. Meditation, I have found lately, is invigorating me.

Received a proposition at work today, for a general manager position. This promotion in management will give me the opportunity to 'run my own little business' (of course with the help of other management). There's been lots of talk of me taking the position but today was a sit-down/we want you kinda talk. Money matters need to be sorted out of course, as I laid my expectations on the table for salary (which was higher than they expected). This is definately experience I am going to need for when my own business takes off, which I've projected to have ready to run in the next year.

Nothin much more than that. Am having difficulty with writing here, feeling that there must be 'something' to write about. Some 'thing' to share. And I'm just lovin' this state I'm in where there is nothing but this, right here. This moment.

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