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Daily Question, June 23

What has inspired me today?

  • Misty

    A kind and thoughtful message from a friend, who I know has a very full and busy life, but made the time to reach out to me.

  • Malag

    Discovering about the many people in non-profits devoting time to environmental issues from rewilding to re-using. Truly inspiring. 

  • Anna

    Creativity and knowledge of people who love their work. I meet many of these people every day. It’s rightly inspiring and at the same time it’s a reminder not to complain.

  • Jeannette Rojas Monserratte

    My third lesson on Buddhism, with Mexican professor Jesús Cabrera, where we talked about what is Happiness and the importance of being grateful at all times in order to be happy.
    Also, one of the things that stayed echoing in my mind was Shakyamuni Buddha teaching that “the best of the good deeds to pursue happiness is to listen to the teachings of Buddhism”.

  • Samuel

    My first practice session with our Bryson City United Methodist Church Glory Strings Players group. I’m learning to play the Autoharp with a group of friends who play dulcimer, guitar, fiddle, banjo, and violin in church and by invitation at other special local events. I cannot imagine life without music, which I believe is proof that God loves us, and am so blessed to be invited to be part of this group… ❤️🙏🏻

  • dcdeb

    The consciousness of my ex husband seemed to expand a little bit

  • Dusty Su

    Every night just before I drop off to sleep, I send love as a gift to myself into the next day. Each morning, as I sit and drink the first sip of coffee, I pick it up. The first sip of hot strong coffee and here I am responding to this question and love is inspiring me.

  • Ose

    While preparing for a Gratefulness-meeting with some friends coming soon, where it is my pleasure to invite people of my area for pondering on what might be essential, the question arose of how to support being authentic and of how to honor own truth while in the same time honoring the truth of another. These questions given by the Gratefulness-team have inspired me today and will for a while. So grateful to meet these questions inside and together with friends.

  • Don Jones

    The wonder of my breath. I feel the rise and fall. I hear the quiet passage through my nostrils. I sense the energy within my body with each breath. Yet it is invisible. Unable to be grasped. And if it stops, then I leave. What a wonderful, gracious, moment-by-moment gift!

  • sb

    On my usual daily walk I decided today to take photos of all the flowers I saw. I thought I knew all the flowers around here but this way I saw so many more, realised the differences between some I thought were the same, noticed differences in distribution, timing of flowering….and their amazing beauty. what a wonderful way to start the day.

  • Toni

    What inspires me is to have another chance to begin again today with pleasure in simple things.

  • Elaine

    My dear friend who is living into a serious cancer diagnosis. In the midst of making decisions about treatment she is her usual excited self about our in person visit and doing the fun stuff we enjoy. Like swimming in a lake, a bike ride, gathering for dinner with friends.

  • Linda

    The beautiful sunny day outside just waiting for me to do my daily walk.

  • Lauryn

    Living in the Bay Area waking up to mornings with an apparent grey sky and sitting outside slowly watching the fog melt away and give way to a blue sky.

  • GregC

    The beautiful 70s degree weather!

  • Sondra

    I was inspired by reading the daily questions from previous days. The one about resilience reminded me of the saying, “Fall down seven times, get up eight,” the Japanese proverb: “Nana korobi ya oki” (literally: seven falls, eight getting up) (七転び八起き) It’s inevitable that we prevail if we just stand up. That’s all. We don’t have to first know what we’ll “do” after getting up, or be overwhelmed in advance. Just. Get. Up.

  • Carol

    I was washing out the bird bath which sits under a very large tree in my back yard. A young squirrel came racing around the trunk, stopped looked me in the eye and began watching my cleaning operation. He was so close to me that I could see his little chest heaving rapidly. I’m sure he had frozen in place out of fear at our encounter. I said, “It’s alright, Buddy. You have nothing to fear from me.” And he proceeded to race on up into the tree branches. I’m pretty sure he got my message!

    • Sondra

      Carol, I love the image of your talking to the little guy! I talk to nature all the time…my aquarium fish, my flowers…

  • Nelson
    I was walking my dogs. Cody is the black one and Calvin is the brown one. The neighborhood was quiet. The air was fresh and the weather was cool. We took our time. We paused, and they just wanted their bellies rubbed. They looked at me, and smiled. It got me thinking – I used to work so hard to find freedom, serenity, connection, happiness. You know what … Those things have been here this whole time. Realizing I already have those things, right now in the present, got me inspired. I exhaled,...

    I was walking my dogs. Cody is the black one and Calvin is the brown one. The neighborhood was quiet. The air was fresh and the weather was cool. We took our time. We paused, and they just wanted their bellies rubbed. They looked at me, and smiled. It got me thinking – I used to work so hard to find freedom, serenity, connection, happiness. You know what … Those things have been here this whole time. Realizing I already have those things, right now in the present, got me inspired. I exhaled, and continued to play.

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  • Butterfly

    Looking out of my patio doors just now there were, not one, but three jackdaws scooping up mealworms as fast as they could! I haven’t seen jackdaws for years and here were three of them right outside the window. I put out sunflower seeds and dried mealworms every day and get so much pleasure from seeing “my” birds coming down to grab what they can while it’s there. It’s my special connection with nature as I can no longer get out into the garden and get my hands properly dirty.

    • Michele

      I had to google them … what eyes they have!

    • Holly in Ohio

      That is so nice, Butterfly! My neighbor puts a handful of peanuts-in-the-shell out every morning, and it attracts Blue Jays. It is his morning ritual, but I get to enjoy it, too! 🙂

  • Neil

    Waking earlier than usual and seeing a spectacular sunrise over the mountains, feeling the cool air of morning before it heats up and the quiet peaceful splendor of it all.

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