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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.


Contemplation

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, November 21, 2006

A ride on the rollercoaster

The current living situation (I've moved, again) resembles much of what I am feeling lately. Less room to move and more things to move between. With another co-worker on their ship that's sailed away I am left with a brimming work schedule. And of course it is at this time that life is calling to me to be more interactive wtih family, friends. Whereas over the past year I've been able to maintain a quiet lifestyle outside of work. Meditating, contemplating. Re-discovering the spiritual wholeness that is me. Time to write, and share.

After a month or so of debilitating pain, my back has seemed to have almost healed.. I am finally able to manage a 1/2 hour sit of meditation. It's been awhile since I've been able to sit and it's wonderful to be back on my cushion.

posted by I Am This at 6:01 AM

Comments on "A ride on the rollercoaster"

 

Blogger CE said ... (3:55 PM) : 

Well you can try standing meditation. Walking meditation. Even eating meditation.

 

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