could this have happened without reading your words?

Dear Robert,
Since reading your book and after the first "Aha!" that I wrote to you about in the last two months, I have been dwelling with thoughts. Two days ago, I woke up, and something in my perspective had radically changed. I found myself in each moment here and now. And this finding, which was only a pointer before this sudden shift, now comes from direct experience.

Could this have happened without reading your words? I don't know. . . certainly it was not the words in and of themselves so subject to misunderstanding, but your "self-expression" that has cleared out all the clouds. And nothing has changed, I am still the same person.

So dear Robert, even if I am sure you don't need any encouragement in expressing yourself so spontaneously, please keep going and unfolding in each moment what appears to be the right thing to say in your replies.

I feel so grateful for life expressing itself through you.

Photographers, 2016

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, I do not need encouragement to continue with this work, but as a string vibrating on one cello in the orchestra stimulates similar vibrations all over the string section, your gratitude calls forth a matching gratitude in me.

Gratitude and compassion are the two wings of a bird that flies free.

We are fortunate if we can see the magic in this aliveness, and the beauty--the poignant beauty--without an overlay of magical beliefs, religious doctrine, or striving for something “better.”

I have received many messages like yours saying that a reading or two of The Ten Thousand Things widens horizons, sometimes radically. The first few chapters are available gratis here.