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, March 14, 2006

Sleepy Transformation

Today was an incredibly slow day at work. However, my last appointment of the day made it all seem worthwhile. She is a television show host (though I never clued in to who she was until the end of the consultation when I got a little nosey and asked questions) and a super cool chick. We had a lot of fun during the consultation (which was also with her significant other) and I can't wait to spend more time with her after I return from the retreat. We talked alot about the Vipassana retreat and she seems pretty interested in doing it herself. She is the second 'toronto celeb' that I've been in contact with at work in the past week. Even cooler was coming home and telling Megan that I got to do her fitness evaluation (which then proceeded in Megan calling all of her friends to tell them).

Someone at work today made a comment about my change in foot attire. I hadn't really taken a notice to any one noticing. Myself not even paying much attention to the change either, just realizing that it came and so be it. But reflecting back I see that most of my choices/actions/reactions had to do with my insecurities and poor self-image. And I see now that as I shed those layers of insecurities I become a brand new person. I am reminded of the butterfly ... I used to see a lot of butterflies last summer. They seemed to follow me everywhere. Danaus plexippus.
Sleepy transformation.


Comments on "Sleepy Transformation"

 

Blogger CE said ... (1:48 PM) : 

Indeed, there is a point where transformation happens all by itself. One must not think of transforming or self-improvement. Just being.

 

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