Find a cue. Anytime you hear a bell, or a car passes, or a particular word. When it happens, bring yourself immediately to experience This Moment fully for a minute. Come back to now and live in it again and again. Only now.
You look back and you're astounded at how little you think you've accomplished, and how very much you did. Fortunately I've saved all my journals - almost 40 years, and it allows me to see the creative stages of life with some distance. For a while I was a published writer who did many other things to put the kids through school. Had my own business for 15 years, been in some phase of management throughout. And since I was a child I needed to know about what we call spirit, or God. You see, as a five year old kneeling before a statue of the Virgin Mary you don't doubt that any of That is real. Well in 60 years I never doubted, but the icons of childhood soon shifted and my yearning to find the Spirit led me through Philosophy and various Theologies, Religions, and particularly Eastern avenues which combine a deep psychology with That which exists outside us. So you retort, Nothing exists outside of us. I experience the world, my mind funnels through ideas, and maybe it...
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