“Look up, look around, this moment, this one right here, it’s your life. Make sure you value and soak up this extraordinary miracle that you are living right this second and the next. Life is precious, especially when you notice it for the moments it’s made up of. Revel in each handful you own and you’ll notice your life becoming more and more valuable, dimensional and rich with everything that truly matters. It’s like living among snowflakes, brief, fragile and miraculous” ~ Lynika Cruz
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” ~ Allen Ginsberg
Life is happening right this second, this moment.
This very moment right here, right now, is where you are actually ALIVE and living.
We spend so much time thinking and planning ahead that we sometimes don’t realise we have accidentally abandoned our current life and moved there.
Moved to a place that doesn’t have solid, earthy goodness filling you up and sweet, present, ecstatic joy slapping you in the face with a big happy kiss.
Planning ahead is important but be careful not to live there.
We lose precious moments on words and half sentences like these:
*Later..
*As soon as..
Once I’ve/We’ve…
*After..
*When the/he/she..
Meanwhile those lost moments accumulate and turn into days, then weeks, months, years until one day you realise
These moments are my LIFE.
Go outside for a moment, really, get up, look out the window if you’re in a blizzard or heatwave, but LOOK out there, look at life, it’s happening right now around you and TO you.
The loose leaf, the sudden dot of a small bird lifting against the sky, the rustle or stillness of this very moment and your own heart beating in your chest, right now. THIS is living.
And it’s happening NOW.
Be happy in it. Satisfied even.. take one small moment if you will and just LOVE it.
Turn it over for a brief second and say out loud, in this moment, this very moment I’m alive and I am noticing it and feeling it.
Now breathe and breathe and breathe.
Life is brief, live it W I D E and DEEP you gorgeous, magnificent, amazing miracle!
~ Lynika
I LOVE anything outside of the box.
As a child I found it very hard to colour inside the lines and I’m glad to say I still do. I much prefer to live outside the box and to let colour spill over any lines.
When was the last time you threw off the ‘expected’ and did something in a new way, or simply your way or just for the fun of it?
“Live from that place in you that knows where the light switch is, trust it. Dare to live out loud with what drives you and don’t ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.” ~ Lynika