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Daily Question, June 3

How am I living a YES to life today?

  • Malag

    I am working on a change that is part habit-related and part physical limitation. It’s not easy to dance delicately between gently moving forward and being frustrated that it doesn’t go the way I want and being particularly frustrated on the physical limitation I know is unlikely to change. So I say yes today to that dance.

  • Hot Sauce

    I am living a YES to life today by being okay with poor concentration. Life is not a productivity contest, and I am not going to pressure myself more than my brain feels ready to do today. I’m just gonna relax and let what happens happen.

  • Debra

    Today I said “yes” to caring for myself and telling me it was OK to take a very needed ‘day of rest’.

  • Eileen

    Turn down the noise. Turn up the music
    LISTEN to “Imagine” by John Lennon,
    “There will be an answer Let it be” Beatles,
    “What a Wonderful World” LouisArmstrong
    “Always be Humble & Kind” Tim McGraw
    There is no “Them&Us” We are all One🌈

  • Amor fati

    Today I seem to be able to quickly to through my intentions and when blocked, let go of the feeling and move on. YES, I will participate, NO, I AM not in charge

  • Carol
    Today I'm saying yes to life itself. I'm claiming it. Sleep did not come easily last night so I played some computer games, listened to some Eckhart Tolle audio recordings and observed how my monkey mind jumped back and forth between old memories and current circumstances. Got up about 8 this morning and picked strawberries from one of my raised beds, watered plants on the patio, made coffee and sat down at the computer. Attempted to write but could not get a focused message to gel. I reali...

    Today I’m saying yes to life itself. I’m claiming it. Sleep did not come easily last night so I played some computer games, listened to some Eckhart Tolle audio recordings and observed how my monkey mind jumped back and forth between old memories and current circumstances. Got up about 8 this morning and picked strawberries from one of my raised beds, watered plants on the patio, made coffee and sat down at the computer. Attempted to write but could not get a focused message to gel.

    I realized that there is truly a difference between the “present moment” and “presence”; Presence comes from within. It is our anchor. It is always there no matter what the present moment is presenting.

    I’m truly not trying to create a tongue twister but present moments do not always bring us peace but Presence does. I urged myself to “Practice the Presence.” Claim it. Root myself in it until hopefully I will no longer have to practice it. I want to become it. This is my and your birthright and it is the only way we will end the suffering.

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    • Malag

      What you said called to me : “I realized that there is truly a difference between the “present moment” and “presence”;”

    • Amor fati

      This is very good stuff! Thank you,Carol

  • Cathie

    Today, I am “yessing” to being: friend, spouse, pet-lover, care giver….and am grateful I can do these things:)

  • Shellan

    my son made coffee for his girlfriend and himself in a press coffee maker and offered me a cup and I said Yes.

  • pkr

    I got out of bed and made coffee!

  • Linda

    I am opening up to the many issues around social justice. As a white person, I am learning more about the day to day lives of people who are not privileged, and the fears and threats they experience daily. It is an important journey for me.

  • Gerry

    By saying “Yes,” to what is, and doing what I can in peaceful, yet honest ways to help in the movement to end racial injustice and police violence. By finding positive, uplifting subjects to post. By writing of gratitude. By saying “okay, yes,” to the ties in my world that bind.

    • Shellan

      both of my kids made offerings to me. My other son picked me up a mini blizzard too. It is good to say Yes to other people’s kindness and offerings. It seemed like the kids enjoyed doing something for me.

  • slawrence

    By reopening a dialog with my kids. We’ve tried to stay connected using Marco Polo in the past year or so but the protests over the weekend caused a rift between us and we haven’t spoken the last two days. It’s sad that we can agree to the protests but not the associated violence. I’m befuddled.

    • Linda

      I have experienced something similar with a young family member. I find myself exhausted at times by the onslaught of terrible news, and I do not want to talk about it all the time. We live in the same home and I deeply respect his ideas, but it has also been important for me to set boundaries when I need to rest.

  • Rachel

    I am wrangling with the discomfort of my whiteness and privilege. I am sitting with the question my community is demanding of me which I hear to be; how does each of us perpetuate whiteness and harm? I am saying yes to this day by saying yes to interrogating myself through this difficult lens with compassion.
    I am committed to saying yes to this as a normal part of my practice. I am saying yes to being part of the change this world needs.

  • Ed Schulte

    Just completed a 100 page transcript for a work called “The Dove of Peace”. The primary bases for this work is Rudolph Seiner’s “Global Pentecost” and his prediction of the current events now unfolding …and will continue to unfold for the next 10 – 13 years. The “YES” is the pleasure of having participated on a global scale to this ‘awaking to the awareness of who we Humans truly are’.

  • Maeve

    Yes, I am here, sitting on my porch, listening to the birds. Yes, I am embracing the uncertainty of my living situation, while enjoying it every moment.
    Yes, I will be doing my day.
    Yes, I have the life I have, with it’s loneliness and it’s joys.
    Yes, I am “a work in progress.” Not perfect, not even how I want to be.

    Am loving listening to the tree swallows.

  • Howie Geib
    [Sidebar] a habit I have here, is writing my reflection before reading your entries...so today particularly I am wondering if I am hearing this question in the same way as some of you LOL...OK here is my reflection: It is in the very littlest of things each morning: making my bed, shaving, wiping the counter in the bathroom when I am done, brushing my teeth, making coffee, putting the dishes away from the drainboard left at the end of the day yesterday...all these small ways that I acquiesce ...

    [Sidebar] a habit I have here, is writing my reflection before reading your entries…so today particularly I am wondering if I am hearing this question in the same way as some of you LOL…OK here is my reflection:

    It is in the very littlest of things each morning: making my bed, shaving, wiping the counter in the bathroom when I am done, brushing my teeth, making coffee, putting the dishes away from the drainboard left at the end of the day yesterday…all these small ways that I acquiesce to the day. It is my way of presenting myself willingly to do the will of God.

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  • Eddie

    I’m starting at home. I’m taking my three kids out to do something one on one today. I’m waiting before I respond to others to make sure others hear my YES.

  • Verena

    doing what needs to be done. content, well-spirited and in harmony with my values. based on trust and vision. a day like this, another day like this, many days like this will build up the big YES

  • reality
    Wow, that's a great global humanity question, for, humanity is living in a 'no' to life today directi0n; ergo, anybody with vision can simply see the extinction of humanity and large mammals racing towards us from the future, on our horizon. With the astronomical forces of the Solar System, especially the Sun (Solar flares, etc.), being more effective on our lives communally and individually, due to our diminishing of the Earth's defenses and nature's balances, ergo diminishing it's defense aga...

    Wow, that’s a great global humanity question, for, humanity is living in a ‘no’ to life today directi0n; ergo, anybody with vision can simply see the extinction of humanity and large mammals racing towards us from the future, on our horizon. With the astronomical forces of the Solar System, especially the Sun (Solar flares, etc.), being more effective on our lives communally and individually, due to our diminishing of the Earth’s defenses and nature’s balances, ergo diminishing it’s defense against and balances with those astronomical forces, from the climate crisis and human choosing of short-term delusional profits that realize astronomically larger long-term real deficits, that question is loaded to say the least. Is anyone that isn’t illimitable potential, indivisible as life, walking in nature’s balances, giving back to her abundances, saying ‘yes’ to life? Yet, it could be said that to the extent we’re struggling to be that evolving humane being we are living a ‘yes’ life. This while, collectively, we’ve almost completely failed to live anything that could be described as a ‘yes’ life; so the study of humility suggests that we wouldn’t suggest we are doing so, individually, because of the very real communal failure of humanity, at large. Though, simply, by participating here and where I can, I’m living a ‘yes’ life; within your perspective. Thanx for all you do and don’t; have a good day 🙂 reality

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  • Kevin

    By working with a small group to hold a silent vigil on the grounds of our Quaker Meeting next Sunday for 8 minutes, remembering the life and spirit of George Floyd .

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