Comments on: And she gets it.

By: Sanford

Sanford — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:48:44 +0000

Some thoughts arising from this wonderful post:
It is good to have a feeling of where we want to go and there is always more danger in staying within our comfort zone than in daring to push toward a goal.
The journey must be valued, even when the going is slow.
Sometimes the baby steps are all we can manage.
Find the next mile-post and celebrate when it is achieved. Then move on to the next.
Thank you, and keep on writing!

By: rhayne

rhayne — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:59:33 +0000

By the way, what an adorable pic of you!

By: rhayne

rhayne — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:58:24 +0000

Wow….that question…is it easier to choose easy and then live with regret and self condemnation or would it actually be easier to make the more difficult choice and live with self esteem and pride?

That is a question I have never considered before. What an eye opener! That is a question that me and my fears need to sit down and have a really good chat about.
Thank you. You always leave me thinking….about the good stuff, the real stuff, the blood and guts stuff that can bring about actual change.

By: Danielle Cococcia

Danielle Cococcia — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:51:20 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching lately and this came at exactly the right moment. It is scary–especially when you ask questions of yourself and the answers don’t immediately come to you…it takes time, concentration and meditation, but to make LIVING, really experiencing life a priority, I believe the answers will come.

By: Andrea Staats

Andrea Staats — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:37:40 +0000

I just finished The Red Book. I loved it. Sometimes, living dangerously is as simple as putting on red lipstick… for me, at least. That’s really taking a walk on the wild side.

By: Masafumi

Masafumi — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:42:42 +0000

I’ve rather randomly stumbled upon your post. I liked your writing and thanks for sharing the question: “Ask yourself: How intensely do I want to exist?”

I like how it’s not ‘to live’ but ‘to exist’. We eventually die. When taken literally, we die by ceasing to exist. But in a way, you or perhaps some fragments of you can exist in memories of other people. Or perhaps those fragments of you exist as a form of ideas. Like, Ghandhi is dead, but his ideas aren’t. Those ideas will keep existing as long as they are great ones. Existing even when you are dead. That’s very intense.

Probably I’m a bit off the track from the question, but that’s what I thought when I thought of what the question meant.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:41:22 +0000

Congrats!

Once you discover your job is not to change the world, but to change YOURSELF, you’re on your way.

A Truth (yes, capital T Truth) most who think they’re wise and enlightened haven’t learned, and so they really aren’t.

By: Mariellen

Mariellen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:46:43 +0000

May I walk with you? I have groaning bookshelves as well. For me its some sort of idea of doing things by proxy (duh, it doesn’t work, you have to do by doing, no way around it). Reading about it is not doing it. So …gots to do it, whatever that may be.

By: Karyn

Karyn — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:49:40 +0000

Ouch. Some hard truth in this post. In other words… thank you.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:52:07 +0000

Are you sure it’s not about shaking other people up? Cause if you keep talking like this you gonna shake up some ass girl!