Living all the way through

Listening this evening to a beautiful radio documentary 'The Living Mountain' (based on an equally beautiful book of the same name) I am introduced to the idea of 'living all the way through' - living in such a way that we get to taste, smell, see, hear and touch the world.In our lives of busyness and distraction, in our striving to get wherever it is we think we have to be in order to be happy, in the midst of the frequent harshness of our inner worlds, how often do we remember to do this? To taste, smell, see, hear and touch any of it deeply enough that it can register?And in addition to all your plans to achieve, to get ahead, to get things done, how about the coming year being one in which to remember this as a possibility?So that this year is not a year you miss in your frantic activity, but a year that you actually choose to live?

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