Its the day before Christmas eve and Teresa and I are spending the day cooking and wraping gifts! What a wonderful pleasure it is to be home, family in town, snow on the ground and perspective on an incredible year. Amazing travel, wonderful friends, financial abundance, and health. It is now clear to me/us, how important health is in the equation of life. We take it for granted, it is pulled away, and everything changes. We feel more whole now for sure. Teresa and I visited the 3rd of our Oncologists in the quest for the final/definitive decree on her treatment. We were one of the lucky ones, we caught the cancer early enough that 5yrs of hormone therapy will suffice. Teresa is vibrant, beautiful, and we are both so thankful for this journey and this outcome.
Our friend Bill Spear had given us and article from the December issue of The Sun Journal. I awoke early on Saturday morning to read it. Adyashanti, is a Zen teacher from Los Gatos Ca. the article is called “Waking from the dream of me”. In it he askes many important questions, like; What is looking through your eyes right now, and what does awakening mean for you, and what is it that you truely want? As we lay in bed later that Saturday morning, reflecting on our year, I asked Teresa what was looking through her eyes? God is peering through them right now, and I see the God in each person that I look upon, she replied.
Teresa and I had an amazing awakening this past 5 months. We just stopped for a moment in our lives, we let our guard down, we were so vulnerable, and we were forever transformed. We feel more love, more peace, more gratitude, more perspective and most importantly more connected to each other, each of you and God. Adyashanti says that awakening is an event, but enlightenment is a process. We are committed to sustaining our learnings, our feelings.
For me, I have a newly bulging compassion gene, coupled with an emerging decorating gene, today add in a cup of cooking gene. Wow, this medicine is amazing. Bottom-line, I am happy, in love and thankful for all that is, now! Peace to you and your family in this great season of life. Thank you for all of your support and friendship this year. May the wholeness of life move through you now and beyond.
Tony
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Interesting how, if you pay attention and learn, you can transform what you perceive to be the worst thing that could ever happen into a gift.
When asked to make a wish, some people ask for specifics..more money, less fat , new house, new car…. Instead, they should try asking for what they need while realizing that what we need is not always what we want.
Cancer is not an experience you would wish on your worst enemy BUT, if its gotta be and you survive it, you can bask in an enlightenment that you wouldn’t otherwise have. Tony, I’m so glad you and Teresa survived this experience and took the time to learn.