“True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.”*

As I first write these words down, today, I am using a journal and fountain pen.  I relish the warmth of the room, the yellowness of the artificial light I read and write by, the way I’m seated, the movement of my pen, and the scratch of the nib on paper; I breathe deeply, and notice the fullness of this moment, feeling alive in it.

John O’Donohue reminds me, life is found in us noticing and accepting who we are.  Just as I noticed the moment of writing and finding it to be full and rich alive, so too noticing who I am and what I have and to know this is enough.  The same is true for you:

‘It is wonderful to behold a person who inhabits their own dignity.  The human body is its own language.’**

(*Paulo Coelho’s interpreter Yau, from Aleph.)
(**From John O’Donahue’s Eternal Echoes.)