I want to also thank you for telling me that my thoughts and words have helped you. I am doing this to share what I feel can be part of the solution for all of us. It is an inner imperative for me. Your comments motivate me to share more.

As you’ve probably discovered by now, when we “own our stuff” we fall into an easy personal power that has no “need.” Instead, we can act on our aspirations for our self. This life is far bigger than we can imagine in our wildest dreams. Live it; explore it; be unique unto yourself — and then share it with those you instinctively connect with, without design or needy agenda.

I think you know what I mean,

Best,
John

Like I said, all of your articles intrigued me and made me step back to take a good hard look at how I deal with life. A ton of bad things happened in my life, one right after another, too fast for me to respond to. Instead I ran away from them, trying pretend that it all wasn’t happening without letting myself deal with each situation as it happened. This “Zen” thinking helped me find a way to go back in my memories and look at the bad things from an outsiders point-of-view, showing me all the signs of depression I didn’t see before. Once realizing why I was acting the way I was, I was able to put forth small but mounting efforts to combat the depression. Once that is gone, living the present as it comes at me will be easy.

They’ve also inspired me to e-mail my past love, admitting the faults and bad decisions I made towards the end of the relationship. I didn’t apologize for anything I couldn’t have controlled, I just let him know that I recognize I am not without fault in the demise of “us”. Nor is he, but I’ve finally come to a point where I don’t need to hear an apology for anything he did, thanks partly to your writing.

Obviously I had my issues before entering the relationship. I have problems with relationships themselves. Your writing is one of few things that have actually helped get me back on track towards a meaningful existence. You express thoughts neatly and simply, but with a ton of tangible emotion/energy behind your words. I love it.

I got to this website by searching for something to increase creativity but left with a better understanding of my life in general. Thanks for sharing your writing, I link to your website when talking with anyone I can find that may need help with trying to live in the “now”.

-Nicole

I love your personal example. Far from silly, it perfectly illustrates that opportunities to feel better about life are everywhere; in your case, in a wheelbarrow

Sara, You’ve created a nice site. I have bookmarked it for further reading.

I totally agree that life offers constant challenges to our desires. We either accept them and use them to further develop our path, or we resist them and have to cope with the results of our resistance.

It’s a funny ole world isn’t it? Either way we look at it, we benefit from knowing simple everyday ways of accessing our core strengths and motivation. As you say — “constant resistance is there. Since it is there, we need to employ every tool under the sun.”