Comments on: Tiny steps, mellow reflections http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/ slices of thought and splatters of feeling Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:50:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: stacijoy http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/#comment-114 stacijoy Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:37:09 +0000 http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/#comment-114 Steve, I love your thoughts here. I forgot that though I may be upset about "losing" things in the past, I'm also gaining pieces too. There are elements about myself that don't feel entirely whole, yet there are perhaps immeasurable good things that I take forgranted that are a part of me. "Perhaps then... you will live your way into the answer." Good stuff. My response seems to be, wow, of course that's got to be a part of how this all works! Another idea that supports it is that of direction and movement -- if we are pointed toward God, or toward discovering the answers to our questions, and we are moving, eventually progress MUST be made. I wonder if it's all about direction and movement. Live the questions now. I like it. Steve, I love your thoughts here. I forgot that though I may be upset about “losing” things in the past, I’m also gaining pieces too. There are elements about myself that don’t feel entirely whole, yet there are perhaps immeasurable good things that I take forgranted that are a part of me.

“Perhaps then… you will live your way into the answer.” Good stuff. My response seems to be, wow, of course that’s got to be a part of how this all works! Another idea that supports it is that of direction and movement — if we are pointed toward God, or toward discovering the answers to our questions, and we are moving, eventually progress MUST be made. I wonder if it’s all about direction and movement. Live the questions now. I like it.

]]> By: Barb http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/#comment-113 Barb Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:35:08 +0000 http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/#comment-113 hello joyful staci :) hello joyful staci :)

]]> By: breathefire http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/#comment-112 breathefire Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:47:17 +0000 http://stacijoy.voxtropolis.com/2006/08/19/tiny-steps-mellow-reflections/#comment-112 I've been having similar conversations in my head. In the last week, I realized that not only are things lost in the process and pieces of self left behind but tremendous things have been gained and added too. We may miss those 'lost' pieces without realizing all we've picked up along the way because they are still with us. I'm trying to stop looking back so longingly and find the NOW. "And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." (Rilke) I’ve been having similar conversations in my head. In the last week, I realized that not only are things lost in the process and pieces of self left behind but tremendous things have been gained and added too. We may miss those ‘lost’ pieces without realizing all we’ve picked up along the way because they are still with us.

I’m trying to stop looking back so longingly and find the NOW.

“And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” (Rilke)

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