Finding solace

[puzzledtoo]

I find solace in silence, if not internal at least external silence. It helps to give me a new perspective on life. Letting go of the external noise of the world allows me to hear myself think and actually hear some to the nonsense I tell myself. I find solace in meditation (sitting and walking), fasting and giving of my time, talents, and treasures (karma yoga). I find solace in the belief that real happiness lies within us. I find solace in the letting go of expecting, wanting, and biases. I find solace in each breath I experience-really experience-even though I’m only nearing 60 years old I realize these breaths are limited to the next couple of decades or maybe the next few minutes. I find solace in the pain and suffering I experience as this lets me know I’m alive and at this moment I have an attachment to being alive. I find solace in seeking Truth, in the day to day mundane activity of the journey. Each moment of each day a new lesson to be learned if I pay attention.

 

[GEddie]

. I find solace in each breath I experience-really experience…at this moment I have an attachment to being alive.

Doesn’t almost everybody???

Breathing is awesome!

ICXC NIKA

 

[puzzledtoo]

Yes breathing is awesome!! until the last couple of years I really didn’t appreciate the breath. I smoked for many years and once I quit that I still didn’t really think of the breath. Now I try to take less for granted as I become more aware on a daily basis just how short this life is and how few breaths we really fully experience-at least in my case. As for an attachment to living, yes I suppose we all have this. I need to work on that.

 

[GEddie]

I am unabashedly attached to being alive! Death is hideous and shameful.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

“Breathing is a gift from God, but we often don’t see that until we can’t breathe.”

ICXC NIKA