Comments on: Is This Really The Best Use of My Time? http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/ Happiness As a Spiritual Practice Tue, 22 May 2012 18:25:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: tammy http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-17530 tammy Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:55:10 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-17530 i love the way you say certain things. like 'slipping into sacred space.' that has stayed with me since your post about staying up all night photgraphing snuggles. maybe that's the best way to find the sacred in life. we must slip into it. if we thrash around and worry and work at it, we lose it. i went to the state fair by myself one year. i always go to the agricultural barns. our state is horse country. and there were many there that day. i love the smell of the horse barn. it was pretty much empty of people. i was lucky. i stood in front of a huge arabian. i swear he must have been 17 hands high. his color was pearl white and his muzzle black. but it was his eyes that captivated me. they were black. i saw myself in them. his face was close enough to me that i could feel his breath. the fence between us was flimsy. if he'd wanted to, he could have been through it in an instant, plowing me down as he went. he and i simply stood there looking at each other. i finally said to him softly, very softly... "do you know how beautiful you are?" he said yes. i know. i said "i love you. i don't know you but i love you." he said i love you too. and then i left. i love the way you say certain things.
like ‘slipping into sacred space.’ that has stayed with me since your post about staying up all night photgraphing snuggles.
maybe that’s the best way to find the sacred in life. we must slip into it. if we thrash around and worry and work at it, we lose it.
i went to the state fair by myself one year. i always go to the agricultural barns. our state is horse country. and there were many there that day. i love the smell of the horse barn. it was pretty much empty of people. i was lucky. i stood in front of a huge arabian. i swear he must have been 17 hands high. his color was pearl white and his muzzle black. but it was his eyes that captivated me. they were black. i saw myself in them. his face was close enough to me that i could feel his breath.
the fence between us was flimsy. if he’d wanted to, he could have been through it in an instant, plowing me down as he went. he and i simply stood there looking at each other. i finally said to him softly, very softly… “do you know how beautiful you are?” he said yes. i know.
i said “i love you. i don’t know you but i love you.”
he said i love you too.
and then i left.

]]> By: Jean http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-5132 Jean Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:18:45 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-5132 Lonny, Thanks! Lonny,
Thanks!

]]> By: Diane/lovewhoyouare http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-2017 Diane/lovewhoyouare Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:49:15 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-2017 Jean, Horses have a special place in my heart. One in particular my first an ex show jumper thoroughbred. I was twelve and many things happened on that day as far deepness is concerned. Horses just change people the interaction. Like many animals do of course. Its that stay thing like in ET.... Its one of those unbreakable things....constant and timeless even as you may not remain in the present and physical. When you now letting go is the right thing. Jean,

Horses have a special place in my heart. One in particular my first an ex show jumper thoroughbred. I was twelve and many things happened on that day as far deepness is concerned.
Horses just change people the interaction. Like many animals do of course.

Its that stay thing like in ET….

Its one of those unbreakable things….constant and timeless even as you may not remain in the present and physical.

When you now letting go is the right thing.

]]> By: Jean http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-2014 Jean Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:30:48 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-2014 Diane, I'd love to more details about your experiences. :) Diane,
I’d love to more details about your experiences. :)

]]> By: Diane/lovewhoyouare http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1997 Diane/lovewhoyouare Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:06:18 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-1997 To All of you, I love Sea Biscuit too... I think the question makes me anxious in a good way. Lately, since I started using the computer its been about getting educated on certain subjects and then relating with others on it. I am really enjoying connecting here as new comer here. I love your areas of focus... Places I love and enjoy and experience that right feeling are numurous so here is some....ART, looking at, reading the history about, teaching about and doing it. Nature all of it and that includes people.... being in it, caring for it, writing about it, connecting to it in new ways...I love being at the beach! Studying the mind and the body and the spirit! Timelessness...feeling pracctises! Self-nurturing practices so I can manage activities from a peaceful presence. To All of you,

I love Sea Biscuit too…

I think the question makes me anxious in a good way.

Lately, since I started using the computer its been about getting educated on certain subjects and then relating with others on it. I am really enjoying connecting here as new comer here. I love your areas of focus…

Places I love and enjoy and experience that right feeling are numurous so here is some….ART, looking at, reading the history about, teaching about and doing it. Nature all of it and that includes people…. being in it, caring for it, writing about it, connecting to it in new ways…I love being at the beach! Studying the mind and the body and the spirit!

Timelessness…feeling pracctises!

Self-nurturing practices so I can manage activities from a peaceful presence.

]]> By: Creating a Sacred Space — cheerfulmonk.com http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Creating a Sacred Space — cheerfulmonk.com Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:04:39 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-1846 [...] ← Is This Really The Best Use of My Time? [...] [...] ← Is This Really The Best Use of My Time? [...]

]]> By: Jean http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1833 Jean Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:17:28 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-1833 Ellen, :) I'm glad it helped. I just read your last post and left a long comment. That's what I love about blogging...the conversations. Thanks so much for coming by. Ellen,
:) I’m glad it helped.

I just read your last post and left a long comment. That’s what I love about blogging…the conversations. Thanks so much for coming by.

]]> By: Ellen Weber http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1832 Ellen Weber Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:22:32 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-1832 Jean, what a great post and memory of Seabiscuit's secrets from that terrific story- thanks. As I read your post I smiled because this week felt so relaxed and all was managed well time-wise until the very end of the week. Then, late yesterday, demands flew in from everywhere - all with urgent tags on them it seemed. We raced around here at the MITA Center as if weekends were weekdays. And then I read your refreshing post and relaxed once again. Thanks for allowing the "wonder" to surface so well - as inspiration to us all. I for one needed it today:-) Ellen Webers last blog post..<a href="http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/diversity/greed-wall-street-and-diversity-linked/" rel="nofollow">Greed, Wall Street, Diversity and Risk</a> Jean, what a great post and memory of Seabiscuit’s secrets from that terrific story- thanks. As I read your post I smiled because this week felt so relaxed and all was managed well time-wise until the very end of the week.

Then, late yesterday, demands flew in from everywhere – all with urgent tags on them it seemed. We raced around here at the MITA Center as if weekends were weekdays.

And then I read your refreshing post and relaxed once again. Thanks for allowing the “wonder” to surface so well – as inspiration to us all. I for one needed it today:-)

Ellen Webers last blog post..Greed, Wall Street, Diversity and Risk

]]> By: Jean http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 Jean Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:58:38 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-1819 Lori, I certainly agree with that! Lori,
I certainly agree with that!

]]> By: SpaceAgeSage - Lori http://cheerfulmonk.com/2008/09/22/is-this-really-the-best-use-of-my-time/comment-page-1/#comment-1815 SpaceAgeSage - Lori Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:00:09 +0000 http://cheerfulmonk.com/?p=643#comment-1815 The best use of my time is always about relationships, although it is tough not to get caught up in just stuff. By relationships, I mean connections with people, animals, and God. When I put these things first, the rest of my time sorts itself out. SpaceAgeSage - Loris last blog post..<a href="http://spaceagesage.com/2008/09/24/criticisms-dark-and-light-sides/" rel="nofollow">Criticism’s dark and light sides</a> The best use of my time is always about relationships, although it is tough not to get caught up in just stuff. By relationships, I mean connections with people, animals, and God. When I put these things first, the rest of my time sorts itself out.

SpaceAgeSage – Loris last blog post..Criticism’s dark and light sides

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