The ability to be silent with me.

Doing and thinking unnecessary, needless things .
Fear and worry.I wish I could completely let go of both, as Brother David reminds us all the time: “Fear not!” He says it is quoted in the Bible 365 times.

This question helped me today to appreciate more fully the splendor of the colors of carrots, beetroot and lambs lettuce at lunch, the sun, the clouds and the sky, the magnificent trees I walked by.
Thank you for all these questions every day. They do their work in my life and make it more joyful!

The ability to move all my joints, to walk, to jump and run, ride a bike. My blood circulation., my sense perceptions, my brain, all the functions of my body, digesting food, making hair, nails grow, making wounds heal.

Maybe most important to overlook the others flaws and faults but instead to see their inner light.
To do something out of the joy of giving and making the other happy.

Space. Stillness. Rhythm.

My husband, my children, my mother, my friends, my neighbours, my Quaker community, my students. I am very grateful!

I can try to make being silent a moment, breathing, calming down before starting to eat a habit. Thank you for all these questions! They really are a help.

I feel calm and it opens my perception. I notice the light, the space, everything is more three-dimensional. Thank you for this question!

As so often the fear not to have enough time for all the things I think I have to do. What can help? To ask what is really necessary and possible. To remember that it takes no time at all to be present now, that everything else is secondary and takes the time it needs. And fully appreciating that I’m alive today slows down everything. Thank you for this question!

I try it by listening to the voice in my head and to replace sentences like “I am..he/she/it is such and such or this or that.” by sentences which describe an actual observation, using verbs instead of nouns and adjectives. This also is the first step of nonviolent communication by Marshall Rosenberg: distinguishing between observation and interpretation.

A concert for friends with music I love. Being fearless and thinking only of my love for music and the wish to share the joy of it instead of fearing I am not good enough.

Connectedness with other human beings.

Thank you, Ed! Truly answering the question how I am not can open to much gratefulness! Playing around with stereotypes is a good practice!

Thank you, you said this very nicely!

Thank you for sharing this! You are so courageous and honest and I think I understand so well what you are talking about, because I know it myself.
Much love and light for your journey, Barbara

Thank you Kevin, I will try that as well: expectations low, hopes high. And this is interesting and important that there can be hope without expectation the two being mixed up far too often. You probably know the famous quotation by Waclav Havel which I quote by heart “Hope doesn’t mean to believe in a good outcome but to be convinced that our action is making sense and is meaningful.”

Thank you, Francine!