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Daily Question, November 22

What can I do to savor more of my life?

  • Malag

    Be aware of the moment often but don’t hold onto it. There’s a fine line between savouring and hoarding.

  • Javier Visionquest

    The flavors of my life are brought forward in the relationships I cultivate. Not possessions, not status or prestige; relationships are the primary ingredient of a life worth sullying the dishes for. Let’s break out the “good” china!

    • June K C

      Yes, people we love and work that brings us joy. And nature to hold us all. As for the dishes, my husband says that whenever he tires of washing the dishes, he remembers a wise man saying that he imagines the dishes as washing Baby Buddha in the sink!

  • Dusty Su

    Today, the rain, the endlessly beautiful rain’s comfort as it pounds on the tin roof, spreads throughout the soaked green garden and empties itself again and again out of overcast grey skies. Then every day after this one, find the magic within nature and seasons.

  • Antoinette

    By enjoying and loving now. Let go of the past and let go of grasping at the future. Love now!

  • Don Jones

    I remembered that the great secret of life, the great know-how, is not to know, but to be at a loss. To be, precisely, at my wit’s end, which is the beginning of the Wit of the One I really, really am. How can He take over so long as I’m determined to hang on to little me?

  • Ose

    I need to let go of a hindrance fixed in my mind. A kind of unhelpful mantra of former imprints rumbling in my subconscious, saying something like: I will not enjoy this too deeply, or not take part at all because as always, I will be forced to leave soon and this will leave me so sad. Better stay away. To let go of this is freeing! Instead, choosing to be grateful for the opportunity.

    • Antoinette
      Hi Ose, It’s been a while since we said hi to each other. I hope you are doing well. I get what you are saying here and I just felt that way this evening when I picked up my youngest son from work. He was saying how he couldn’t imagine living here forever and that maybe he’ll want to live in the USA. My heart dropped because of course wouldn’t know what I would do here in a Norway without him! But we’re not in the future yet! So rather than think I better not get too close to my al...

      Hi Ose,
      It’s been a while since we said hi to each other. I hope you are doing well.
      I get what you are saying here and I just felt that way this evening when I picked up my youngest son from work. He was saying how he couldn’t imagine living here forever and that maybe he’ll want to live in the USA. My heart dropped because of course wouldn’t know what I would do here in a Norway without him! But we’re not in the future yet! So rather than think I better not get too close to my almost adult children to protect my heart I decided to enjoy the now.
      This is really helpful because we can only live now. So it may sound simple minded but it’s what I take refuge in. I take refuge in love in the present moment. I hope we can help each other to enjoy what we have right now.

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  • Melissa

    Right now I just embrace anything that keeps me in the moment. Even if it is fleeting. When I do I can be filled with gratitude for just seeing a bee or a Monarch butterfly alive and doing well. At the same time having hope that a vaccine is on the way and this too shall pass.

  • GratefulOne

    Help others when I can. If I cannot help others, wish them well.

  • GratefulOne

    Practice mindfulness. Do things slowly. Breathe. Meditate.

  • Gicelo

    Para saborear mas la vida puedo estar mas presente, practicar la gratitud, aceptar plenamente las cosas tal y como son. Podría practicar mindfulnees y meditar para entrenar el cuerpo y la mente para saborear mas las experiencias de la vida.

    • Michele

      translation: To savor life more I can be more present, practice gratitude, fully accept things as they are. You could practice mindfulness and meditate to train your body and mind to savor life experiences more.

  • Ariana Silva

    I can do everything in my life with intentions and be okay with where those intentions lead me, wherever they may be. I can worry less about things I cannot control and even about those I can control, knowing that wherever life takes me is where I am supposed to be. I can take joy in the little things: whether that be taking a picture with friends, typing out this reflection, changing into a new outfit, or writing a research paper. Joy is everywhere, we just have to be open to finding it.

    • Pilgrim

      “Joy in the little things” … this, for me, is the way of these times for me. I expect that will continue, even beyond pandemic life.

  • Linda

    I can appreciate the time I am spending with my husband, cooking more than usual, and spending time doing my art.

  • Zenith

    I honestly don’t know. The question assumes that life is only positive. What I have learned is that there fleeting moments of perfection that quickly disappear. With a chronic pain condition there rarely a moment not tinged by physical pain. All life is viewed through pain. I think sunshine, sunset is a miracle every day. Exercise is something ecstatic because for a very brief time I am pain free. Because all is touched by pain for me, I cherish the positive moments that much more.

  • Chia

    From where I am right now, look around and find something to appreciate, and then something to be grateful for and love myself for being able to recognize what I am privileged to experience. I am here.

  • Mike S

    Move out of my mundane thought and really feel all the people, things and experiences I am grateful fir.

  • Patricia

    Breathe. Accept. Love. Give thanks.

  • Butterfly

    Calm my busy mind and relish all the things for which I am grateful.
    Wishing all a peaceful Sunday 😊

  • Michele

    I can continue to practice gratefulness, enjoy the little things, and appreciate those I love to savor more of my life.

  • devy
    Begin and end my day with reflection and meditation concentrating on all that I have and how fortunate I am. Others around me may not be as joyous. Understand that we all have our own battles and that not everyone show gratitude. Be there for those who are troubled and don’t let their reactions destroy your own gratitude. Perhaps by showing that I am grateful and joyous that this will emanate from me and others will sense and pick up the positive feelings. If not, I will try to not them get me...

    Begin and end my day with reflection and meditation concentrating on all that I have and how fortunate I am. Others around me may not be as joyous. Understand that we all have our own battles and that not everyone show gratitude. Be there for those who are troubled and don’t let their reactions destroy your own gratitude. Perhaps by showing that I am grateful and joyous that this will emanate from me and others will sense and pick up the positive feelings. If not, I will try to not them get me down.

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  • Ed Schulte
    Live in the guidance and wisdom of this Yunus Emre poem We entered the house of realization, we witnessed the body. The whirling skies, the many-layered earth, the seventy-thousand veils, we found in the body. The night and the day, the planets, the words inscribed on the Holy Tablets, the hill that Moses climbed, the Temple, and Israfil’s trumpet, we observed in the body. Torah, Psalms, Gospel, Quran — what these books have to say, we found in the body. Ever...

    Live in the guidance and wisdom of this Yunus Emre poem

    We entered the house of realization,
    we witnessed the body.

    The whirling skies, the many-layered earth,
    the seventy-thousand veils,

    we found in the body.

    The night and the day, the planets,
    the words inscribed on the Holy Tablets,
    the hill that Moses climbed, the Temple,
    and Israfil’s trumpet,

    we observed in the body.

    Torah, Psalms, Gospel, Quran —
    what these books have to say,

    we found in the body.

    Everybody says these words of Yunus
    are true. Truth is wherever you want it.

    We found it all within the body.

    English version by Kabir Helminski & Refik Algan

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