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Sweet Breathing

Enough

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I was asking these very questions and Mary Oliver (as she so often does!) quenched my thirst for answers. It is enough to find the essential overwhelming ecstatic joy in LIFE itself, in witnessing the wonder, in absorbing the sounds, smells, feelings, taste and touch all around us. Acknowledging and bringing presence to the the privilige of the breath, right here right now – always in all ways, enough. Thank you Mary. Thank you World. Thank you LIFE. Thank you breath. Ahhhh….

“Have I lived enough?

Have I loved enough?

Have I considered Right Action enough,

have I come to any conclusions?

Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?

Have I endured loneliness with grace?

I say this, or perhaps I’m just thinking it.

Actually, I probably think too much.

Then I step out into the garden,

where the gardener, who is said to be a simple

man, is tending his children, the roses.”

-Mary Oliver

Inspiring Words, Nature, Photography, Sweet Breathing

Entering the Stream

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“Now , I want only to give away all that I’m blessed to know and disappear in the stream.”

-Mark Nepo

Quarantine self care is a thing I’m allowing myself, gifting myself with, so before a long hot mid-afternoon bath, I picked up my novel, lit a candle, put in some “Tired Old Ass” bath salts – thanks Craig 🙂 – and lowered into my soak.

Except, I didn’t pick up my novel… By mistake, instead, I opened the book I had picked up, Mark Nepo’s Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, to the above passage.

One of those life moments of perfection happened… the words, the timing, the quiet to absorb them.

What is enough to leave as a legacy? What will say that I’ve been here, that my life mattered, that will endure?

Oh yes, to share everything that your heart and soul has been blessed to learn and simply enter the stream…

And to Love! To leave that imprint of how much, how deeply, I loved… how passionately, how fiercely, I loved the wild ones, the forest, the trees, all of nature’s majesty and mystery, the wonder of the moment, my family, my husband, my dog, and all those four legged that shared my life  through the years, my forever friends, my nieces and nephews.  SO much Love.

Is it possible that I allow that to be enough?

Sweet Breathing

Enough

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Is it enough to be you, as you are right now?  Is it enough to be present and not consumed by doing?  Is it enough not to need anything?

This video by “The Mrs” examines self image, and the book I just finished, “The Map of Enough” ponders what it may look like to be satisfied with now – with where you live, what you have and who you are…

Map of Enough

 

As the New Year of 2015 moves closer, I am examining this concept of enough.

Thankful for all that is and being present to this gratitude is enough more and more of the time.

The fullness comes from the inner gifts, never from outer appearances.  From the wildness and completeness of nature, and not from those things that are contrived.  From present moments and not busyness.   From awareness.  From taking a long sweet breath of life, as it is, now.

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.”
― Vanna Bonta, Shades Of The World

“The only true thing is what’s in front of you right now.”
― Ramona Ausubel, No One is Here Except All of Us

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