Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

~Oliver Sacks

don’t sleep when the dream is so real…..enliven and feel….

inquiry for today~   it’s so easy to mistake challenge for despair…..challenge is really a call to live into your most vibrant aliveness……

and then it disappears

A beginner’s guide to the art of chasing rainbows:

-Facing the dark sides of life.

-Changing perceptions.

-When dreams become delusions.

-Reawaken a sense of wonder.

-Nothing lasts forever.

-The power of interconnectedness.

-Finding pleasure in the sheer superficialities of life.

-Not everything is supposed to be colorful, and yet it is wonderful.

-Bright creativity is a ripening process.

~Simone Datzberger