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Finding The Vast Miracle of Life in the Moment
I’m participating in a class called “The Gift Of Life — A Year To Live”. It’s based on Stephen Levine’s book, ‘A Year To Live’. In These Days of uncertainty and pain — it is equal parts comforting and disquieting to come to understand the fact of one’s own death.
So many of us suffer from a case of mistaken identity for most of Life. We pretend we don’t know we are pretending. We give importance to All. The. Things. which aren’t.
We let ourselves be lost. We look too far ahead at goals and anxieties — and lose focus. We are too busy becoming to actually BE.
We allow ourselves to be lost. We look too far in the past at regrets and fears — and lose focus. We are too busy regressing to actually BE.
We don’t take time when we have The Time.
One of the exercises this week in class was to BE for three hours. Unplugged. No TV, no music, no reading, no internet, no human interactions. We could walk, meditate, even practice yoga. As long as we kept our own company — in our own consciousness.
We had to just BE for that time.
Three hours.
After a week of way too much screen time and way too many images burned in my brain — it was a welcome reprieve.
