Today I have the pleasure of hosting Dagny Sol of Serenely Rapt fame on my blog! Dagny inspires by her writing. Her prose is impeccable and will pull you into her stories and anecdotes that have elements that inform, entertain and make you think. As a writer, she is among the finest I’ve read. As a woman, I admire the way she leads her life and the woman that she is. She is strong willed, principled, and never afraid to speak her mind. She is also deeply sensitive and perceptive! She can be mischievous and a lot of fun as well. She and I share so many traits in common sometimes even thoughts that it has become a joke among us :). It is with great delight that I welcome her here. Hope you will love what she writes as much as I do…
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With a change in perspective you can live a little deeper.
Frequently (and unconsciously), you rate your actions by level of their importance. For instance, the time you spend with friends is important, but the time you spend with your family is more important. An hour of reading might be very important but thirty minutes of visiting a sick friend in hospital must certainly be more important than the reading, while a sixty second conversation with a grocery store clerk might not be important at all.
What if everything you do, matters? If every move counts as much as any other, every interaction you have is significant? What if every decision you take- or abdicate- is like the blow of your hammer on the chisel of your will- shaping you into what you are in the process of becoming every single moment of your life?
Every tint of color you add (or decide not to add), you are creating the masterpiece that is your life. You are assured that this masterpiece will be beautiful no matter what colors and brush strokes go into it. It will be beautiful simply because there will be no other canvas like yours in the world.
Being aware of the importance of each moment in helping create your unique canvas will surely prompt you to choose the most soothing colors and the deftest brush strokes for your canvas. You will surely be a little more deliberate and fastidious in your choices. You would certainly reject unworthy brushes and substandard colors. Your time might be utilized better, your talents exercised more thoroughly.
You will begin living a little deeper.
When life is lived a little deeper, you will be a better parent and spouse, a better employee and a far more valuable friend. Your life would be a lot more satisfying. A feeling of personal significance, of knowing how important your life is, doesn’t come from without; it wells up from within.
– When a parent knows that the angry teen that lives in the bedroom across the passage is storing each conversation away unconsciously to use as a reference point later…
– When a teenager understands that every choice made in leisure today will affect the choices that will be available to him in the times ahead…
– When an employee knows that every tedious report he is compelled to generate condenses into drops of life giving fluid that keeps her company flourishing…
… life is lived a little deeper.
Your decisions become wiser. Your words become milder; your annoyance loses its sharp edge. Your reactions become more cautious and patient. These are just a few examples of what will happen. Simply put, when we understand that every action matters, every result of our actions immediately improves!
I believe we are all given our individual share of life. You may spread it out over a large surface… stretch it out thin, so to speak. Or you can let it seep deeply into layer upon layer of consciousness with hardly a small patch visible on the surface. Each style of living has its own rewards. A huge spread makes you visible to your fellow humans, while your impact has no permanence. When you live a little deeper, the opposite is true.
Pearls, after all, are citizens of the deep.
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