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Daily Question, August 17

What keeps me from the simplicity of a given moment?

  • GratefulOne

    To borrow from Brother David, when I forget to STOP and take a breath.

  • Cliff

    Anxiety and fear of all the projections and what may come that my mind can conjure. Breathe the moment and be present.

  • Kevin

    Overthinking, being analytic, and focusing on what’s happening next instead of being present to what’s happening right now, are proven methods of destroying the beauty and simplicity of any given moment

  • Michele

    Not quite sure how to answer this one …. My thoughts are on Afghanistan and the horrific images on the news of those people clinging to an airplane and falling to their death. Where is the simplicity of THAT moment?? I am grateful to be an American and an American woman at that.

    • Katrina

      It is difficult to live in tandem with both the simplicity of a specific moment in time right where I am, while elsewhere in the world or even down the street horrific things are going on.

  • Carla

    Projecting ahead versus being here in the now. Right “now” is all I really have-my breathe in, and out.

  • sunnypatti

    The ego trying to make it a complicated moment.

  • Howie Geib

    Mostly my bedfellows projection and remorse. When I remember to pull one foot out of the future and the other out of the past and get firmly planted in the present things calm down considerably.

    • Carol

      Howie, your response made me think of the “Hokey Pokey.” We all need to do the “Hokey Pokey”…put our whole selves in to this moment!

      • Mica

        Thank you, Carol and Howie – you’ve made me giggle, Carol, and I love the way you phrase your wisdom, Howie 🙂

    • Mary Pat

      Well said!

    • Cliff

      Ditto

  • Dusty Su

    I am curious, and love to improve, broaden, explore them deeply, and then take them further in huge ways. I can make a project out of getting out of bed in the morning, and have, ha, ha! These are strengths, but they can also kill off an already more than good enough thing. “Dying of improvements” is how I explain it.

  • M89

    Greed, thinking about what’s missing and thinking about wanting that missing thing.

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