wow a great article. it reminds me of the saying, "take time to smell the roses."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
"The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time ..." James Taylor's voice crooned in my head. This is a chorus that I am thankful to hear over and over again. In fact the older I get, the more that this simple truth has meaning. There really is no where that we are getting to and no arriving at a destination that defines us. Our lives are like arrows on a trajectory of our intentions, and learning to savor the moments that make up our daily experience is the foundation for loving yourself and others.
It is a relief to realize that relaxing into life is really how to succeed at it. It is probably also the best advice for how to treat our most intimate relationships. The biggest life changing relaxation method you can cultivate is letting things be as they are. When we embrace ourselves with all of our imperfections, we have an internal barometer and capacity to offer that to the people we love. Probably the single most consistent destroyer of relationships is the tension that builds by demanding it to be what you think it should be, rather than learning to love what it is. There are millions of ways that this non-acceptance plays itself out in every relationship. It often begins within us....
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