Monday, July 23, 2012

A year in a life


"The more spiritual you are the more ordinary you are...the more unspecial you become. What is a spiritual life? Chopping wood, hauling water." - Eckhart Tolle­­­­

Today I am 34 years old and over the past year of my life, I have begun awakening. What do I mean by awakening? I mean the awareness that my physical form is simply a shell that houses my true self - the soul.  I know that I am not the things I do; not the things I have; not what others think or say about me. I am a spiritual being having a human experience.  When this human form dies, the real ME will continue. Energy does not go away – it changes form. Over the past year I’ve become much more aware of how I treat those around me and how I exist on the planet.  This has led to an interest in living sustainably inorder to lesson my footprint. My fiancé and I are researching how to begin an urban garden in our backyard (god help the dogs if I ever talk Leah into letting me have a goat!) I spend my days thinking about chicken coops, how to quiet my mind, how to actively listen to my best friend and how to provide compassion to the walking souls I share this existence with.  I am the happiest I’ve ever been…so I’m thinking there is something to all this stuff I’ve been reading, doing, learning…all this awakening. That’s why I wanted to share with you guys.  If I can be happy just by changing my thoughts and my way of being in this world, anyone can.  How amazing is that?

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