It has been said that most people in the world are asleep and the few who are are really awake live it in full ecstatic awareness. Indeed life is so beautiful but we take it all for granted. Our limited time is so precious and yet we live as if we are going to live forever. In a blink of an eye, life is done and we don’t really know what happens after that. Carlos Castaneda’s mythical Don Juan says this, “Death is the greatest adviser…if we live in full awareness that we are going to die, only then shall we learn to truly live…In a world, where death is the hunter, there is no time for doubts and regrets. There is only time for decisions.” It is sad that people realize the beauty of life only when life is leaving them in sickness and old age when all that is left are memories. And yet if we live fully well, we can make breathtaking memories to treasure for all eternity. When worries overtake me; when my self importance eats me; when i am too stressed to smell the flowers; when i have so much attachments and lose my equanimity, i remind myself: DEATH MAY COME ANYTIME; LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. SHINE THE SPIRIT! Then i remember that life is not measured by the number of breathes we take but by the moments that take our breathe away. Then somehow, i get a boost of energy to go on fully living. I love you all!
