By Leo Babauta
This morning I used to be consuming a extremely easy meal, with minimal seasoning, and I savored its deliciousness.
Usually I am going the alternative method: I eat an excessive amount of, too rapidly, with an amazing variety of flavors. And I barely style any of it.
That is how I generally expertise life: I accomplish that a lot, so rapidly, and have an amazing quantity of stuff occurring. A lot in order that it’s laborious to essentially expertise any of it absolutely.
After I simplify, it’s not essentially about eliminating stuff — it’s about letting fewer issues actually be skilled:
- When I’ve fewer issues, I can actually use these issues absolutely, appreciating them absolutely.
- When I’ve fewer issues to do, I can actually pour myself into these duties, and actually expertise them.
- After I have interaction with fewer issues on-line, I can have interaction with them extra thoughtfully.
After I take away the extraneous, it offers me an opportunity to savor what’s left. The flavors can actually shine.
And my expertise of that is that life is de facto revealed when I’ve much less in entrance of me.
That’s not an argument for all the time having or doing much less. There’s one thing to be stated for embracing the fullness of life. As a substitute, it’s a noticing of what occurs after I decelerate, after I do much less, after I absolutely expertise issues as a substitute of dashing via them so I can do extra.
The fullness of life is commonly revealed in simplicity.