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Living an Ordinary Life

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For me, this is where the discomfort starts to set in. With no deviation from the school and activities schedule until at least June, and no vacation on the horizon, I start to get antsy, when I feel like I’ve personally hit a plateau. Over a decade into my mediation practice, I’ve at least developed an awareness of this: my extreme distaste for when it feels like nothing is happening in my life. When there’s momentum, forward movement, growth – I’m good. But the second that starts to slow, I get that itchy allergic reaction.

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A Fractal Analytic of Loneliness

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Why do I feel so desperately lonely?
Because “I am” is now invisible: it is ungraspable, uncertain, unstable, perpetually withheld from my reach. “I am” is always becoming and persists at the end of time. “I am” is inexhaustible movement, relationship, fluxing transition between states. But “I am” is breathing me when “I think” I am breathing it. It is an affirmation of my existence. It is Change. Always changing (thank God, always changing). 

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Every Breath, Every Step

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I can easily get lost in my mind. While that is sometimes amusing, it most often doesn’t take me where I want to go. Don’t get me wrong, the mind is a wonderful thing! It got us to the moon. It’s how we produce enough food to feed 8 billion people. But, as the saying goes, “the mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.”
That’s where the body comes in. Body is always in the present moment. When I’m aware of bodily sensations I have some space from my mind, some perspective on it. I don’t get tricked so easily. And from a clear mind comes an open heart.

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