Why Your "Ordinary" Life Is Actually Beautiful
- Andy McIlvain
- 3 days ago
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Updated: 3 days ago
Video from Reflections of Life
Why Your "Ordinary" Life Is Actually Beautiful
"The act of paying attention seems rather simple - simply being aware of life happening all around us. And yet most of us are asleep at the wheel. Our habit is to be lost in a trance. Thinking. Planning. Worrying. So how can we find meaning in our lives when we are repeatedly lost in our own thinking?
A beautiful place to start is to pay attention. To live is to observe. To experience the fullness of life is to put oneself into the fullness of life. To embrace the wholeness of this journey is to lift your head, squint your eyes, wipe your heart of bias, and look. And in the looking, we might be profoundly changed.
Let's not miss a thing. Let's embrace it all - the beauty and the heartache — both of which make us feel alive and allow us to know that we're actively participating in life’s unfolding. Let's all strive to be awake for as much of it as we can.
Featuring Annie Lighthart.
Filmed in Portland, Oregon, USA.
We love Annie's poetry. And if you do too, you can find more details on her website - http://www.annielighthart.com
from the video introduction
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