Tag: Being

To Be Is To Do

Happiness, Success

This is a cryptic sounding phrase, ‘to be is to do.’ I read it recently and have been pondering its meaning. What it is referring to is being in the moment, to be in ‘flow.’

We spend a lot of our time in our heads, thinking about the past or the future. We rarely spend time in the present. We rarely just do the thing we are doing. When we just be we just do.

When you are sitting just sit, when you are standing just stand, when you are walking just walk. To be is to do.

Feeling At Home

Happiness, Relationships

I have a few places where I feel like I belong. One of them is being at home with my wife and daughters. This is my home base, to use a baseball euphemism. To extend this euphemism further, I feel that when it comes to my religious beliefs my Unitarian chapel is my religious base. I feel at home in any Unitarian church or chapel.

When it comes to feeling connected to the natural world, being near trees and grass, flowers and all of the animals, birds and insects that share the Earth with us, feels like being in my natural world base.

You will have places and situations which are your bases, places where you feel a connection to something outside of yourself, and this is a very good thing. These bases are spaces in which we should spend time just being, and exploring all that it means to be a human being, and more than that, being the individual human being that we each are.