Freshness
Be new,
And watch as your life unfolds.
The key to living a fresh, clean, and enjoyable life is to be as a new person each second, treating each moment as if it were the first, last and only one. That’s where the wonder can be found. That’s where joy lives.
February 27th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I couldn’t agree more, but I think it’s a true to say that with each passing second you are literally a new person.
After all, the Richard that started reading your post, wasn’t the Richard that started typing this comment, and neither of them will be the Richard who’ll press the “Submit Comment” button.
Neurons will have fired, thoughts will have been had, memories accumulated, metabolic processes have moved on slightly. Those Richards are gone and one has yet to be.
A great idea, that I don’t really exist as a static entity, now if I could just do the same trick on my wage slips tax deductions…
February 28th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Ah, quite right Richard. The question that tends to pop up after that revelation is this: “how then to live with the uncertainty that brings?”
If there is no static “I”, then what of my memories? What of my ideas of who you are and who I am? What of my habits and my living?
Such simple truths are full of profound wisdom, what a change to life there must be to truly live in this way.
Hahaha… You could always send a letter to the tax people saying that technically you aren’t the same Richard that worked those hours and earned that money, so how could you be legally responsible for them?
[perhaps, they'd counter-argue that in that case, the money you've earned isn't yours and take your savings... hahaha].
March 11th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
**Such simple truths are full of profound wisdom, what a change to life there must be to truly live in this way.**
so true.
another beautiful entry Lewis 
Beccaxx
March 11th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Thank you becca - it seems to me that to know the kind of peace spiritual advanced people talk about we must realize that what we think of as happiness isn’t really happiness at all.