Life Lessons: An Introduction
This >category< does not aim to teach you lessons. There are no commandments here, no clever tricks for success, no final answers. If anything, you might say that these ‘lessons’ are not about learning something new but about recognizing something old — already present in you, perhaps long unnoticed. What you will find here is Read the full article…
When Nothing Happens
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) A late afternoon.You’re sitting in a chair, maybe with a cup of something warm. No one’s calling. No task needs your attention. Outside, the sky changes softly — light folding into itself.You look around. Nothing is happening. The discomfort of stillness We are trained, gently but persistently, to fill.Fill the Read the full article…
The Leaf That Didn’t Fall
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) It’s the middle of winter.You walk past a tree. Its branches are stripped bare by wind and frost — all except one.One small leaf still clings to a twig near the top ― brown, curled, silent.It doesn’t seem stubborn. It just is. Not letting go — yet There’s something quietly Read the full article…
Time Does Not Pass Here
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You’re listening to a piece of music.It’s not loud. Not especially grand. But at some point, you notice that everything else has fallen away — your plans, the time of day, even your name a little bit.You are not ‘using time.’ You’re not ‘in a moment.’You are the moment.And the Read the full article…
The Meaning of One Step
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You get up to fetch a glass of water.Just a few steps to the kitchen. Barely enough to think about. You’re already planning something else in your mind, halfway through tomorrow.But the step still happens.Your foot touches the floor. Your weight shifts. For a brief second, the body moves in Read the full article…
Dying a Little Every Day
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You finish a conversation and feel something has shifted.Maybe just slightly. Something said. Something not said. You hang up the phone or walk away, and for a moment, you’re quiet. Not sad, not happy. Just… touched.You don’t know it yet, but something in you has just let go.A tiny death. Read the full article…
My Hands Remember More Than I Do
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You reach for the teacup without thinking.The same hand that once buttoned your child’s coat. The same fingers that learned to tie knots, to write letters, to touch a face with care. You didn’t plan the movement. It was already there, waiting. You just followed it.And in that small act, Read the full article…
The Days I Thought Were Ordinary
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) There was an afternoon I barely noticed.I had just returned from the grocery store. I remember putting the bread on the counter, glancing out the window, and watching a leaf fall without much thought. Someone I loved said something from the next room. I don’t remember what. But now, years Read the full article…
I No Longer Rush to Answer
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) Someone asked a question.It wasn’t difficult, and it wasn’t new. I had an answer – perhaps even a good one – on the tip of my tongue. But I didn’t speak. I waited.Not because I was unsure but because I no longer feel the need to be first in line Read the full article…
We Were Quiet at the Same Time
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) The conversation had run its course.There was nothing more to say — not because the topic was closed, but because it had settled. You both looked out the window. No phones, no fidgeting. Just stillness. And in that shared stillness, something more than words passed between you.You didn’t plan it. Read the full article…
The Way Your Absence Stays
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) The chair is still there.You walk past it without thinking — then pause. The light falls differently now. You notice the shape it holds, the slight sag in the cushion where someone used to sit. You didn’t realize it could still feel warm.And yet it does. Presence turned inside out Read the full article…
You Touched Me Without Knowing
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) It was nothing, really.You were walking through the station. Late afternoon, the low hum of announcements in the background. Someone passed you on the left — you never saw that person’s face. But for a reason you couldn’t explain, something in you softened. You exhaled more deeply. The world shifted Read the full article…
I Found You Where I Wasn’t Looking
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) It was a Thursday.The kind of day you don’t remember later. You were at the supermarket, tired, picking the wrong kind of apples. Someone next to you laughed — not at you, but at something entirely their own. You looked up. There was no reason to remember this, and yet… Read the full article…
The Way You Held the Sky
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You were looking up.Just for a moment — not long. Your eyes followed the clouds, slowly drifting in and out of form. You didn’t seem to be thinking about anything in particular. You were simply there, under the sky, as if meeting it.There was a kind of stillness around you Read the full article…
A Whisper Between Two Heartbeats
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You’re walking beside someone.Not saying much. Maybe you’ve said all that needed to be said, or maybe words never arrived. A gentle silence rests between you — not cold, not heavy. Just there.You glance at someone. The other person doesn’t look back, but knows.And somehow, so do you. The in-between Read the full article…
You Were Always Already Here
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) The door closes behind you.You take off your shoes, place your keys in the bowl, maybe sigh — not out of tiredness, but something softer. The room is still. Nothing in particular has changed. And yet you feel it.You’ve come home. Not a journey, but a return There are moments Read the full article…
A Cup of Tea and the Universe
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You pour the tea.A little steam rises. The cup warms your hands. The room is quiet, or maybe not — but you’re not really listening to the outside. Your attention is gently inward, softly resting on the small swirl of liquid, the way it seems to calm as it settles.You Read the full article…
Being Gentle with Reality
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) A wrinkled shirt.You notice it while getting dressed. A small fold near the collar refuses to smooth out. For a moment, you feel the impulse — fix it, iron it, make it right.But then you pause. It’s such a small thing. You let it be.And something in you softens, just Read the full article…
You Are Not What You Think
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You wake up in the middle of the night.A thought is already waiting for you. It might be about something you forgot to do, something that might happen, or something that already happened long ago.You try to ignore it, but it grows. More thoughts arrive, pulling you into a story. Read the full article…
The Depth of a Smile
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) You see someone across the room.They notice you and smile. Nothing grand, nothing staged. Just a slight upturn of the mouth. But something in it makes you pause.There’s warmth, yes — but also something else. A quiet weight. A kind of presence.Not every smile is light. More than it seems Read the full article…
The One Who Does Not Die
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) A quiet moment.The smell of rain on warm earth. You’re sitting at your window, watching it fall in gentle waves. A bird pauses in a nearby tree — not flying, not singing, simply being.For a moment, time seems to step aside. You too pause. The question behind the question We Read the full article…
(Don’t) Be Serious
(see: Life Lessons: An Introduction) About a spec and a universe ― and a gentle smile. Seriously If you are serious, that’s OK because it means that something is meaningful to you. If it is deeply meaningful to you, it makes you deeply serious about it. And that’s fine! You care about people. You are Read the full article…