Relationships are not easy

I am sure this is a widespread experience: we slowly begin to open our perceptual eyes at twenty or so and quickly realize that there are many other forms in the world — many relationships if you will. Some appear to be unconscious like rocks or mountains or the sky, and others animate — they scurry, jump, or move about. The beings that look like me are the most intimate and yet confusing. Whatever their presence, we quickly comprehend that everything is separate and distinct. Initially, a freshet of fear and loneliness is presented —  it subsequently calms and then dissipates. The mature person accepts, “I am alone in the world.” 

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A new beginning: the new year dawns

We are said to be flowing streams of consciousness, or are we? What reality do I really occupy other than the immediate moment, which itself is brief and fleeting? How do I find that elusive peace that all of us so desire? As the new year begins to set its course, we are all allowed to start with a clean slate — to have a new beginning. Our “whiteboard” need not be impregnated with anything that we don’t put there ourselves: pain, jealousy, envy or regret, to name but a few.

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