Tag: moment

A summer evening.

Posted on by philipdodson

I’m sitting in the garden, just listening to the birds, the coolness of a summer evening as the sun sets, a gentle breeze, a flapping of a bird’s wings in the tree.

Sounds and smells of nature, a beautiful sky, with ever changing colours as the sun continues to fade behind the horizon.

This background of the real moment, now, is always there. It’s we just don’t notice it, our endless repetitive mind-streams of thought drown it out.

If we stop and listen, allowing some our senses to enjoy this moment, then we become conscious and at peace.

This is freely available now, it’s just we have to choose to become it and enjoy it.

Some people feel the rain

Posted on by philipdodson

I read this quote today…”Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.” – Bob Marley, wisely said.

Life is all about how we choose to see it.

If we see things as hard, they will be. If we think all people are against us, they will be. If we think that the day is hard, our partner is irritating, or the neighbours are a pain in the arse, well, they will be. If we think there are bad people…guess what, in the reality our mind creates, all people will then be bad.

If we move, unless we change our inner mindset, the new neighbours will be a pain in the arse too.

So we can either accept what is, the moment and enjoy it or we can get swept along by all that happens to us and let it eat away at us.

Consciously we just get wet and move on, within our mind and its dramas we feel everything.