Does it ever feel as if you are living two lives? In one, it feels like you’re running in the proverbial rat race of life, moving fast, working hard, doing the same things days after day, and not really getting anywhere? Or at least nowhere meaningful? And the other life presents itself in those moments of sheer perfection, like when you’re watching––no, experiencing––the perfect sunset, and you have this overwhelming feeling that all is well, that life is good. Time slows down and that peace that passes all understanding permeates your entire being. Living enlightened brings the moments of sheer perfection into the entirety of our life.
Isn’t that what we all want on some level? That sense of being fully alive and connected to even the most simple everyday task, connected to each other, and perhaps even connected to something greater than ourselves? That is the thought that pushed me, or pulled me into living enlightened everyday.