Isn't it wonderful to have a chance to expand? Doesn't it feel so delicious to have a little bowl of ice cream after a delicious meal? Don't you think it is wondrous that we can share our thoughts and feelings on the internet together, to exchange, to learn, to vent, to share, and to enjoy?
I am deliberately drawing out this feeling of wonderful I am having, and am so glad to have this opportunity to share it with you.
You see, after my last post, a very dear friend of mine reached out with an email. She wonderfully expressed her appreciation for the ideas I had put up on the internet, and expressed a gratitude that she could still find a likeness of being, a shared journey, similar struggles and similar triumphs, so easily and from someone who had know her since being children. And she appreciated the words that I used as they seemed to her, to express so well that spirit that resonated for her - and in fact, that her appreciation extended in part due to the fact that it seemed to be about something for which there are no words, there is no description.
And I was thinking, but that indeed is the most perfect way to describe that feeling. That place of wonderful for which there are no words, and in which the only thing that we become capable of doing is loving that which we come into contact with around us. So as I contemplate this feeling tonight and I have often heard of the importance of giving appreciation liberally, I am full of the realization that the idea that we SHOULD appreciate, that we SHOULD be able to describe that wonderful place, that we SHOULD be able to bring about the wonderful life that we so dearly, desperately, and sometimes tragically desire is really all there is keeping us from that wonderful experience of becoming all that we dream to be.
So, I would like to invite you to ride along on the easiest most enjoyable ride of looking about for the simplest level of true appreciation we can feel, even if it is just lip service and allow it to take you thought after thought into the place where the love of life, the appreciation overflows as if there is a cascade of wonderfulness flowing out of your mind and body.
I really appreciate that the sky is blue. And isn't it wonderful how that blueness looks different when the weather changes? And how wonderful it is to feel the sun shining when the weather is clear. And I'm so glad that the sun makes green grass grow, because green was my favorite color when I was a kid. And it was so fantastic to be a kid, to smell the grass on a soccer field, and the thrill of scoring a goal, what a wonderful feeling of triumph and how wonderful it is to have the vantage point to remember this feeling, and bring it forth into my conscious awareness and to have that affect my emotions in the NOW moment that is already passing into the next moment of potential brilliance!
And I appreciate my dear friend for reminding me that this place of wonderful is truly an indescribable place, that there is no way I could possibly CONVINCE myself to have this kind of experience but that it is only possible to FEEL my way to it...
Just like making a soup : )
Life, is like a soup.
You taste it, and you notice the wonderful flavors contained in it, and you look into your cupboard at the various ingredients and when you notice one which looks particularly wonderful, you put a little bit of it in your soup. And then you let the soup simmer for a little while, and then you taste it again and you notice how subtly the flavor has changed in the most delicious way and your taste buds soar with the awareness of the contrast and you keep this up making a richer more delicious soup little by little and bit by bit. That's the way. And this is what FREEDOM feels like, and I am so glad that you are reading this because it is so much easier for me to think when there is someone to listen : ) And it is so much more meaningful for me to feel this when others around me are feeling it - so thank you to my dear friend for reminding me that there is no substitute for tasting the soup, that there is no need for the words to describe it, there is just the feeling which is transmitted on every word in every action and through every breath. Ahhh.
And thank you to Abraham for inspiring me to write this rampage. I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I did sharing it.
Abaddham!
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