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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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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Being Who We Are

Time and again we identify ourselves in terms of the roles we adopt on the stage of life; the choices we make in this life and what we perceive as the triumphs and falls we experience as a result. Too often we identify with our choices and at times fill our minds with the disappointment of what we see as failure until it becomes an imperious part of our identities. But our self cannot be defined by our choices, as the very core of our being always remains impartial.

Simply, there exists no right or wrong choices. What we choose ultimately contributes to our growth as human beings and are an essential part of the process of evolving. Rather than living in a world of duality in right or wrong, we can adopt to experience the experience without the label. And we can choose to decide differently the next time. We can become more mindful in the choices we make in each and every moment. We can choose a new response. A perceived error then develops into an offering of opportunity to learn and grow.

Comments on "Being Who We Are"

 

Blogger CE said ... (1:24 PM) : 

"Simply, there exists no right or wrong choices."

This is true only when you don't make any choice or choices. Just an idea.

 

Blogger Hayley's Bed said ... (3:25 PM) : 

to "decide differently next time", would that not entail living or acting from memory causing one to miss the truth?

taken further, we could site the wars between individuals on religious or any other 'grounds' as a
product of their unwillingness to simply be with another and experience 'that'...

possibly it is the mind itself that is the root of all conflict, both within and without...is it possible to
be that available, that open and unafraid?

thanks...again :)

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (8:03 AM) : 

Anne, you said: taken further, we could site the wars between individuals on religious or any other 'grounds' as a
product of their unwillingness to simply be with another and experience 'that'...

Just Being. No Doing. Beautiful. In that moment of conflict, making a choice not to react, but to just Be.

Thanks :)

 

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