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Adrien Saell's avatar

The line about realizing you are "inside your life, not watching it from a safe distance" stayed with me.

There is a subtle but important distinction here between living and inhabiting. The essay reminded me that aliveness is often found not in extraordinary moments, but in paying fuller attention to ordinary ones....

John Hopkins's avatar

Brilliant comment thank you Adrian - you are absolutely right !

Peter Clifford's avatar

We all originally evolved from water.

John Hopkins's avatar

Yea - and the great majority of our body is made up of water… quite easy to forget that. Thanks for the comment Peter I hope all is good with you guys x