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Daily Question, March 31

What helps to awaken me to the miracle of simply existing?

  • Mary Pat

    Countless things. I will pick just a few….I was sitting outside in the afternoon, and it was quiet. All of a sudden the wind started to blow in a gentle way…it was so beautiful seeing the trees sway, and hearing the wind all around me. And when the birds sing in the mornings. And when a chickadee lands on a branch of the tree outside the window-so many things!

  • Malag

    To use the pre-cooked answer from the word of the day: realising I am alive. That I am here to bear witness to this moment.

  • Imo Greenwood

    the fact that i’ve been through such absolute atrocities as i have that no person should ever have to go through, yet i’m still here & get happy when i hear morning birds or when i see healthy expressions of love or see people out n about j doing their thing. i can still look outwards in appreciation instead of turning completely inwards to absolutely crumble. that’s absolutely a mini miracle.

  • Ed Schulte

    The amazing contrasts / diversity / in perspectives that humans hold between each other of what “existing” is!

    For example, todays question vs todays “Daily Word”

    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    OSCAR WILDE

  • Ose

    A rainbow, the magic of a sunrise at a seaside as well as a sunset with its breathtaking beauty and silence, awe-inspiring and it fills my heart with deep joy, merging.

  • Don Jones

    I don’t know. There has been years of intense spiritual enquiry and practice, retreats, carefully crafted questions to teachers and Masters, endless meditations. One thought was, it is a happening. Another was that I am God. Then the question arose, “What is God?” There was one, however. His name is Papaji. He said to stop… and be quiet…

    • Ed Schulte

      “Those who say they “know God”, are liars.
      Those who say they “don’t know God”, are liars”
      DASKALOS

      Between the two is “Existence”.

  • pkr

    Listening to the birds singing this beautiful sunny morning makes me appreciate my existence. And listening to classical music with a lovely “cup of joe”! It all makes me happy I am here.❤️

  • Hermann-Josef
    When I say I am existing , then I say I exist as someone, somebody, something. I exist in the mind of others. So for them I am what they think of me or how they do experience me. Is that me? If I myself think of me, what is it, that I can think of. I think of a body that is changing and is made of atoms which are mainly empty space. Or I think of my character which is the result of conditionings created by parents, other people, experiences ,thoughts and so on. Am I that ? Hard to believe. What ...

    When I say I am existing , then I say I exist as someone, somebody, something. I exist in the mind of others. So for them I am what they think of me or how they do experience me. Is that me? If I myself think of me, what is it, that I can think of. I think of a body that is changing and is made of atoms which are mainly empty space. Or I think of my character which is the result of conditionings created by parents, other people, experiences ,thoughts and so on. Am I that ? Hard to believe. What is this I, that seems to be so many things? By painting with dedication, making music or in deep meditation we can feel that we simply are that, in which all this happens. we are the ground and possibility for everything. I am not something, but something has the opportunity to be within me. So it is me. I am not this, but this is nothing else but me. Actor John, who is playing a Police officer is not a police officer. But the police officer is nobody else but John .

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  • alara

    This is too much for words, and even words are not enough. I just show up and keep showing up in the moments.

  • Chris Berry

    Awareness

  • Blossom

    the air is brisk and chilly, I sit in the warmth of my heart, slowly enveloped with the light of dawn, the pulse of mother earth as she stirs, a slow smile appears

    bless. you father, bless you mother, bless you sister, bless you brother

    bless you, bless you, bless you

  • carol

    reading these posts 🙂

  • Barb C

    Stephen Jay Gould’s book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale did that for me years ago. The sheer mathematical odds against me–my specific me–being here, now, are amazing. Yet they happened.
    Also coffee. Seriously. Sitting with a hot, bitter cup smelling its aroma, feeling the warmth of the cup in my hands, tasting it. That’s a moment in which to simply exist, and appreciate.

  • Butterfly

    Meditation. When I take time to feel my connection with all that exists, the being and fullness of everything, it is truly wonderful.

  • sunnypatti

    Just being. I am constantly noticing the miracles of “simply existing,” and right now appreciate the breeze blowing in my dining room window onto my back. The sun is also on my back offering warmth, but only sporadically, as its cloudy and a storm is headed our way.

    It’s these kinds of things that keep me awake to the miracle of life 🙂

  • Charlie T

    Thinking about the chain of people that came before me in this roulette wheel of chance. It’s amazing that any of us are here. Whole sub species of hominids didn’t make it. Died off. Yet here we are, at the end of this branch. Existing. So many things had to go our way. Bullets dodged, famines endured, illness and plague avoided and survived. Our hearts still beat with the original electrical pulse of life. Handed off. From one to the next. Like a fire tended. Night after night.

  • Holly in Ohio

    Noticing the weather and the seasons every morning helps me to feel alive. I live in a state where the seasons change from one extreme to the other, and I love it. Each day right now I watch subtle changes in the landscape. A new flower comes out. The buds on trees get larger. Another bird comes north for the warm months. The grass gets greener. It is a constant unfolding, much like our own lives.

  • Chester

    Gratitude and purpose.

  • Maurice Frank

    Stopping for a minute and just noticing what’s around me. This is hard for me to do.

  • Laura

    So many things – a beautiful day, a rainy day, the bright color of flowers, trees, time with my kids, beautiful music.
    Sometimes nothing at all seems to awaken me. In the midst of an ordinary day, a profound wave of gratitude will sweep through me, bringing on tears. The fact that I can breathe, see, hear, taste … it all seems miraculous in those moments.

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