NITCH

Rilke said: ‘Being here is so much.’ It is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here.

Do not be tense, but ready; not thinking, but not dreaming; not being set, but flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware, and alert; ready for whatever may come.…

We can expand this to include the rest of our sense perceptions: sound, smell, taste, and touch. Everything comes with a sense of appreciation. How wonderful the world is! How beautiful the world is! How exotic and how fabulous the world is! You might take the world for granted, but if you look again, you will find that tremendous beauty and subtle

One’s appreciation of the world never diminishes. When you open your eyes early in the morning, you don’t say, “Oh, here’s another day, another pain.” First, you hear the rustling of the sheets on your bed. You feel your hair lying on your pillow, if you have any hair. In any case, you feel your head lying on the pillow, and you begin to look aroun