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Daily Question, October 26

What makes me feel most alive?

  • Colleen

    Nature. Sun. Connection with my animals. Laughter.

  • Malag

    Probably when I’m in an activity such as hiking in the hills or sailing in a race. There’s a heightened sense of presence.

  • Chester

    Connection – connection with purpose, with individuals, with God, with the world that surrounds.

  • Ann

    There is no one thing for me. I feel a strong sense of aliveness when I’m singing a song when I pour my heart and soul into each word and note; AND I feel a strong sense of aliveness when I’m gazing silently at a tree or flower. Both activities seem to engender deep connections with Life, and both are equally appreciated such that I can’t honestly choose which one to give a label of “most” to.

  • Wiltrud

    To see that my children have become happy adults despite a difficult family time made me feel alive today. A walk along the coast of the Baltic Sea with the sun in my face, the fresh wind etc. is nature’s gift to make me feel most alive, longing to go there for a weekend soon,

  • pkr

    Mother Nature….???

  • Rebecca A Burton

    I am most alive when I’m making deep connections with other human beings or my Australian cattle dog, silently or aloud. Typically this happens while walking outside, so that movement of our bodies lends itself to movement of the conversation or other form of connectedness..

  • Ed

    I am most alive when I choose just this, now, what is.

  • Mica

    What comes to mind is – feeling energetic, which I don’t always feel now, as I am aging. I also resonate with the joy of natural beauty.

  • Tom

    I feel most alive when I am at a peaceful place in life.

  • Linda

    Sunshine!

  • Laura May

    Swimming in the ocean while it’s raining, the flood of adrenaline when I jump into something nerve-wracking, the smell of the woods during autumn, driving on a hot summer’s day with all the car windows down, laughing until I cry with good company. Anything and everything that reminds me how good it can feel to be human.

  • Debra

    Swimming! Diving deeply into the pristine, cool waters until my need for air explodes and catapults me to the surface. In that moment , I am more than alive. I am within and beyond and beholden to Spirit.

  • Javier Visionquest

    That moment, usually just before some catastrophic mishap, when fear is replaced by a presence of the peculiar calmness of flow consciousness. Time seems to stop and all the senses become unified in absolute clarity. I believe the Masters refer to this state as Zen.

    • Anneclaire
      I have just a taste of what you speak of. When I was in my teens I nearly was in a horseback riding accident. The horse ran away with me (I was NOT and experience rider) down a field towards a barbed wire fence. (I learned afterwards this dear horse had the habit of stopping dead at the fence and flinging his riders into it!). I felt this amazing calm. Everything seemed in slow motion, everything was crystal clear. The horse stopped dead at the barbed wire fence. I stood up in the stirrups, lift...

      I have just a taste of what you speak of. When I was in my teens I nearly was in a horseback riding accident. The horse ran away with me (I was NOT and experience rider) down a field towards a barbed wire fence. (I learned afterwards this dear horse had the habit of stopping dead at the fence and flinging his riders into it!). I felt this amazing calm. Everything seemed in slow motion, everything was crystal clear. The horse stopped dead at the barbed wire fence. I stood up in the stirrups, lifted my left leg up and back over the horse and stepped down safely on his right side calm and unharmed.

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  • Michele

    Butch women, Halloween, heavy metal music, ’68 Dodge Charger – although now I LOVE the Dodge Challenger, nature-full moons, bats, willow trees, so many more …. great question:)

  • Carla

    Forgetting myself when immersed in nature: watching & listening to the geese fly overhead; being overcome with the rich smells of mowed grass or fall’s drying leaves on a trail. In prayer & meditation being led to think of others. Talking 1:1 with another sharing experience, strength & hope about living life.

  • GCharlotte

    I feel most alive that I may wake up everyday with God and drink a cup of coffee.
    My life with my daughter and mother. Being with my father. Speaking to them over the phone. Sketching&drafting. Talking with my brother. Going to Church.

  • Mark Piper

    When those moments arrest me where I actually feel/experience/understand, “see I am making all things new”.

  • sunnypatti

    Connecting with others.
    Laughing.
    Walking in nature.
    Surfing, swimming and floating in salt water.

  • EJP

    My grandchildren.

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