Two people look at the same storm βοΈ:
One feels fear: βItβs going to destroy everything!β
Another feels beauty: βHow majestic nature is.β
Did the storm change? No.
π What changed is the mind that interprets it.
So, what we experience is not βthe storm itself,β but our own inner relationship with it.
Experience is an interdependent processβever-changing, without fixed essence, yet full of effects and impact.
Seeing this clearly helps us avoid clinging or rejecting. Instead, we move through life with greater lightness, flow, and freedom.
We enjoyed a wonderful day in Switzerland on a small budget.
With 20 CHF for gas and 50 CHF for healthy snacks and drinks, we spent only 70 CHF in total.
From 9:00 to 15:50, including a 1 hour 45 minutes car drive, we had an amazing day!
A Moment of Gratitude
Today, I pause to simply give thanks.
For the breath in my lungs, for the lessons in every challenge, and for the quiet moments that open the heart. Gratitude turns the ordinary into the sacred, the fleeting into the eternal.
In each inhale and exhale, I return to love β the kind that begins within and radiates out to everything.