today.

i read a lot.  i am inspired by the words of others, exposed to and provoked by thoughts sometimes different from my own; yet often very similar to mine if i were to actually put them onto paper.  here are a few passages i've come across lately...all of which have spoken to me and made me think just a bit more...each one simple enough:

"you make your mark inside yourself.  i think we're meant to use every single thing we're given.  i want to act on every impulse."

"you have to start with yourself.  you have to let yourself know you're here.  take things in.  let things happen.  everything."

"the truth is, endings and beginnings are one and the same.  the question remains:  what new beginnings are waiting to be pursued?"

"finish each day and be done with it.  you have done what you could.  some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

here's what i think:  we have one life.  a limited number of days.  we waste many of them for sure.  maybe what we should do is open our eyes to every single thing that surrounds us...don't close our eyes in fear when it gets too hard, don't shield them from the brightness when it's too much to bear...instead, look...see and feel everything you can...be open to every possibility and new beginning and figure out how to make peace with the endings.  touch, smell, taste, listen...be quick to give, slower to take...step back from yourself...but only far enough to realize that the world doesn't revolve around you. 

this life...i want all of it.  every. single. bit. of. it.  i want to do small things with great love and i want to hear and feel and touch on many levels.  so, my goal is to "begin (tomorrow) well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with (my) old nonsense"!