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My Highest Ambition is to Be What I Already Am
My Highest Ambition is to Be What I Already Am

Indeed, why not honor our own feelings? Why does it ever occur to us to doubt ourselves and question ourselves as much as we do?

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Every-Day Mindfulness, Meditation, Quotes & Notes, Uncategorizedweflourishandbloomcalm, center for mindfulness, chomp, daily, full catastrophe living, gentleness, gifts of imperfection, insecurity, jon kabat-zinn, joy, mbsr, mindful, mindfulness, mindfulness-based stress reduction, Monterey, peace, self care, self confidence, Thomas Merton Comment
Water Thoughts
Water Thoughts

That swim seems to me like a miniature model of life. Anxiety crescendos and decrescendos; joy alights and then flies away. Grief goes on and on; overtaking me for a time and then lying low. Those anchovies are still out there somewhere in the ocean; sometimes they're all I can see, and sometimes the water is clear. Things come and then they go.

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Every-Day Mindfulness, Grief, Natureweflourishandbloomanniversary, anxiety, dad, daily, every day, every day mindfulness, fear, gentleness, grief, impermanence, mindful, mindfulness, Monterey, Monterey Bay, motivation, mourning, nature, ocean, open-water swim, self care, swim, vulnerabilityComment