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Daily Question, July 2

How can I live a big YES to the adventure of my life?

  • Mary Pat

    By being me, doing what is calling me, and honoring that in my life. I had written a note to myself years ago that says….”if you had listened to yourself instead of others, what would you have done or left by the path of life?” and then I listed the things I would have done differently. And after that I started listening to myself. That was the big YES for me.

  • Mica

    There’s a woman on my weekly zoom who seems to be doing that so much more impressively than I – she was given a life expectancy of 3 yrs – and that was 5 yrs ago! I might live as much as a quarter century now, so I laze around contentedly a lot of the time. 🙂

  • Don Jones

    When I cut a piece of wood, it takes care. I cut in a specific zone. Not too far on the waste side (the past) of the line. But at the same time, be careful to not cut either on the line or over the line (the future). The big YES comes from cutting right beside the line (now). It requires care and precision.

  • Brother Ben

    I approach my life as if it is a roller coaster ride that has ups, downs, twists, and turns. As best as I can, I relax and go where the ride takes me. In my better moments, I trust God and enjoy the ride.

    • Mica

      Dear Brother Ben, you answer reminds me of an essay in a yoga magazine responding to the question of whether you’d rather be steering the boat down the rapids yourself or trusting some higher power to do it. I felt safer with the higher power. 🙂

  • carol
    hmm-- I re-read the question in light of the word for the day about the role of perception. Then I listened to someone on the radio saying... I heard my perception: based on fears, then expanded it a bit ... acceptance of the adventure of living in a society that by enlarge supports and promotes disparity and divisiveness, and being mindful as to not getting caught up with anything other than compassion and the importance of expanding my perceptions to include the innate capacity for compassi...

    hmm– I re-read the question in light of the word for the day about the role of perception. Then I listened to someone on the radio saying… I heard my perception: based on fears, then expanded it a bit … acceptance of the adventure of living in a society that by enlarge supports and promotes disparity and divisiveness, and being mindful as to not getting caught up with anything other than compassion and the importance of expanding my perceptions to include the innate capacity for compassion and wisdom. At this moment my opinion is that it is innate to the human condition that abandonment and shunning, as we do with those who are homeless and hungry, leaves people suffering of not having safety needs met today and in the future. We will continue to impose this suffering on each other until we take up the challenges of expanding toward ending the suffering within ourselves en-masse.

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  • Brian

    I think the Word for the Day today summarizes (a big part of) it quite well.

  • Hot Sauce

    I can live a big YES to the adventure of my life by pursuing knowledge continually and being willing to explore new domains, like lucid dreaming and vision quests, so that I can grow spiritually through direct experience of transcendence.

  • Charlie T

    By not resisting and by being available to the moment. Like swimming in a river or the ocean, you can’t fight it, you need to work with it, or else you’ll struggle and struggle until you’re exhausted.

  • Hermann-Josef

    Yes is living out of that who we are. There may be any stimulus, which is already a given fact for this moment. It makes no sense to say no. It would bring suffering only. Once this yes is there, I accept life, which is always this very moment. After the yes I can think how to react to this stimulus intelligently and lovingly for me and my surrounding. Then the reaction follows. My freedom as a human being is exactly and only in between stimulus and reaction.

  • Barb C
    I read poetry each morning before coming to this site and often, serendipitously*, I read something that relates to the question of the day. That happened today so I'll share a set of questions that add to this one. From Which It All Began Bernadette Miller Tell me, what would you do today if you knew your life to be a celebration of this world? Would you stop to gather sunlight dropping soundlessly upon pines beyond your window pane? Would you court dreams too wide for the co...

    I read poetry each morning before coming to this site and often, serendipitously*, I read something that relates to the question of the day. That happened today so I’ll share a set of questions that add to this one.
    From Which It All Began
    Bernadette Miller
    Tell me, what
    would you do today
    if you knew your life
    to be a celebration
    of this world?

    Would you stop
    to gather sunlight
    dropping soundlessly
    upon pines
    beyond your window pane?

    Would you court
    dreams too wide
    for the container
    of consciousness?

    Would you linger
    in the terrible beauty
    of uncertainty
    as if the fullness of the world
    depended upon your presence?

    Would you cast your hopes
    upon possibilities that abide
    only in departure?

    Would you become the motion
    of your song,
    losing itself in overtones
    of delight
    or despair
    and returning, finally,
    to the stillness
    from which it all began?

    https://janicefalls.wordpress.com/2019/07/

    *It has long been my observation/belief that serendipity happens when you’re paying attention.

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    • Michele

      love the word serendipity. My heart and soul awaits for that to happen if/when I ever fall in love again.

    • Elaine

      as if the fullness of the world
      depended upon your presenceTaking this in!

  • Yram

    Accepting invitations, chasing opportunities. To follow Br. David’s
    Stop, look, go practice.

  • TofuLove
    By not denying myself loving others, even if I realize not all of them are good for me to interact with. I tend to be very willing to extend love to nearly anyone I meet, even others who most people find difficult to deal with, but at a certain point it’s OK to no longer interact with someone when they turn abusive. I think for me saying “yes” is accepting that I love people even at their worse, even if I realize that not everyone is ready to offer love and kindness. I just had someone cur...

    By not denying myself loving others, even if I realize not all of them are good for me to interact with. I tend to be very willing to extend love to nearly anyone I meet, even others who most people find difficult to deal with, but at a certain point it’s OK to no longer interact with someone when they turn abusive. I think for me saying “yes” is accepting that I love people even at their worse, even if I realize that not everyone is ready to offer love and kindness. I just had someone cursing me out (really though, they seem to just be in a weird place) that I was trying to be kind to and funnily, I don’t feel upset at them, I feel it’s a bit funny, not right for me as a friend and that I care about them and hope it all works out. I’m sort of amazed how much I don’t get upset by things and I think the big part is I don’t deny myself loving others, even if I cease interaction with them, the love and genuine affection for them never really stops. I seem to have for some reason a lot of love for everyone, even really difficult people so that’s how I remain open to life, I don’t deny myself loving ever. It’s odd to me though how much forgiveness and love I feel for really, really, really difficult people and how nothing seems to faze me or cause me to become closed off since everything negative others do, even if I realize the behaviors are not good and I need to extricate myself from those situations, I return with an instinctive I LOVE YOU and forgive you.

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    • Barb C

      A friend of mine found a painted rock on a walk that had the words, The love we give away is the only love we keep.

      • Michele

        Today is International Drop a Rock Day. I found a rock while staying at the Gaylord Palms one day – it was so much fun and instantly put a huge smile on my face. I now have it in my front rock garden:)

      • Mica

        Thank you, Barb – that reminds me of what I saw on the beach one day, ‘written’ in something like kelp: “I ((Heart)) YOU THIS MUCH” – I love the photo I took and have made it into a number of greeting cards.

  • Laura

    Eyes and arms open wide.

  • Holly in Ohio

    Worry less.
    Do more.
    Ignore complaints (especiallly my own!)
    Relish the day’s opportunities.
    Listen to people, give them time.
    Stop making excuses not to try new things.

  • Michele

    By taking one! I will try to go someplace new this weekend:)

  • Trinity

    By being in contact with my heart. Having courage. Daring to dream beyond what I see possible at this moment. Allowing my heart to expand every day and being open to follow the movement of Life and to where it´s taking me.

    • Michele

      cute kitty profile pic:)

      • Trinity

        Thanks, she´s my Siberian queen.. <3

        • Mica

          Cats aren’t so helpless as guinea pigs – if they want to be with me, or not, they can just come over, or leave. And they don’t need walking like dogs. 🙂 Warm wishes to you, Trinity.

        • Mica

          Pets are such dears, aren’t they, Trinity? – I plan to get my first cat when my nearly-5-yr-old guinea pig dies 🙂

  • EJP

    By opening my heart and soul and moving forward one step at a time.

  • sunnypatti

    I woke up, and I said thank you. With an open heart and no expectations, I’ll welcome each moment as the day moves forward.

  • Antoinette

    Show up with an open mind ready to let go.

  • Kevin

    Wake up
    feet first
    feeling forward
    something new
    through eager
    ageing eyes.

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