Tag: Gratitude
Bird Man
It’s deceptively cool in here. The air conditioning units are blasting and the air is filled with drying, freezing, ‘fake’ air. I know it’s ridiculously hot outside and walking past the poor Security Guard on my way up the steps to my office, I hardly dared meet his sweat-drawn face. But still he smiled widely […]
Continue Reading...Make your bed (you will want to lie in it)
I read somewhere that it was important for a Buddhist monk to make his bed when he arose from his sleep. At the time I thought it was because this activity kept the strict regimentation of the monk’s life of study and service. I was correct in a way, but not fully.Arising from sleep and waking […]
Continue Reading...Life is Happening…
How do you manifest your ‘life’? It’s not defined by achievements, purchases or qualifications because those things are external from our souls. We would still exist without them, they are luxuries, add-ons. The real sustenance for the soul is the feelings we feel, the thoughts that we think, the ‘pulse’ that we sense when things […]
Continue Reading...Acrostic -Thank You NHS
T he trouble with humans is that we take everything for granted. H ow would it feel to lose normality, lose what you hold so dear? A nd after that, how would it feel to know only a select few might be able to restore order in your body or that of a loved one? […]
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