It's getting late so I'll keep this short, but I wanted to try and keep on a roll! Sometimes I'm just so tired by the end of the day that I don't want to look at the computer anyway. But I just came back from my meditation group in Columbia so I guess I'm still a bit 'energized' though mellow. Tonight the facilitator talked about the idea that enlightenment is really just being free from suffering. But most of us aren't able to attain that state because we're too attached to our emotions and thoughts. It's not that you will never feel emotion--fear, sadness, anger--but the idea is to feel it and let it go, rather than be attached to it... Not so easy to do, but as I try to put this into practice, I'm finding it really does bring peace into one's life. It's along the same ideas as Eckhart Tolle's books, which I find myself referring to a lot. Thanks goodness I've found all this now, at this time when I particularly need it. I wonder how much of it is also the wisdom of age, just being able to see what you've done in the past, and wanting to do things differently, hoping for a better outcome. 

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