- Grateful for a really chilled weekend, did absolutely nothing for the last 2 days.
- Grateful for reading Practicing the Power of Now in one day. I could never finish the full Power of Now book so this concise handbook was a God sent. I really like Tolle’s ideas but I find a lot of them in conflict with the actual practicality of day to day living.
- Grateful for having a wonderful cleaner Selina who does magic to our house every Saturday so that it’s bright and neat and pleasant to live in for the rest of the week.
- Grateful for hours of interesting insightful conversations me and Will had this weekend. The more we read and learn about ourselves there more questions seem to arise, like peeling the proverbial onion.
- Grateful for 4 great movies we watched this weekend, Mongol, Happy Go Lucky, Burn After Reading and Happening. Great to have such a variety of movies “on tap” with the Internet and torrents these days.
- Grateful for the Osho Zen Tarot cards that I use every morning as a small piece of Zen wisdom to start my day. Today it gave me a “Living Moment to Moment” card second day in a row (!) and coupled with the Practicing the Power of Now book I have just read I am really thinking the universe is trying to tell me something.
- Grateful for the livingsocial.com website as it helps me catalogue the books and movies I come across in my life. I love the act of reviewing something once I am done with it as it forces me to reflect on how the book/movie affected me and what is the main idea the author tried to present.
- Grateful for being able to observe my own old mind patters of self judging firing off. Even though observation and awareness does not make them disappear it kind of makes me laugh at myself and not take what my mind is telling me to heart.
- Grateful for finding it hard to come up with things to be grateful for, which is very interesting considering how wonderful my life truly is. I guess practice makes perfect and it is a wonderful practice to keep up.
- Grateful for having wonderful subcontractors who are making my dream of laid back lifestyle a stark and unbelievable daily reality for me.