"Resolve to be tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant with the weak and wrong.
Sometime in your life,
you will have been all of these."
Buddha/Siddhartha Gautama
"I sometimes feel lost and like I'm drowning... not sure how to cope sometimes."Dear Anonymous being, We feel lost only when we forget that we are connected to everyone and everything. We are never apart from the world around us. We are all one. One with everything that is. And if we can always remember this connectivity, seeing a piece of ourselves in everything and everything in ourselves, then we will know the truth... that we are NEVER alone.
"Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."What helps us get to this place of certainty and oneness?
"The Avett Brothers has always been a very special band to me, and this song in particular carries meaning. It was the first song by them that I ever heard, and it's always summed up my feelings about love. Love doesn't have to be fancy. It doesn't have to mean expensive gifts, detailed dates, or every spare minute spent together. Sometimes it's as simple as a dance in a crowd of singing people, under the stars, on a chilly October night..."
'Well, life is ever-changing,but I can always find a constantand comfort in your love.With your heart, my soul is boundand as we dance I knowthat heaven will be found.'
"Dear Rosie, I feel lost and alone and as if I am drowning. I know I am loved, but struggle with the challenges that life lay ahead of me. I am not selfish, nor do I seek to complain... but I am unsure of the next step. I desire to help loved ones and grow individually, but again feel unsure."Anonymous, I was discussing a similar subject with a dear friend a bit ago. We found through our exchange that we happened to share an overarching perspective in relation to these sorts of feelings - those of isolation, unhappiness, loneliness, and uncertainty. And here it is: