Being in the World

Weekly horoscopes by Rob Brezsny:

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are four key questions I hope you'll meditate

on throughout 2019: 1. What is love? 2. What kind of love do you want

to receive? 3. What kind of love do you want to give? 4. How could you

transform yourself in order to give and receive more of the love you value

most? To spur your efforts, I offer you these thoughts from teacher

David R. Hawkins: "Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is

a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself

and others."

I think that the last time I saw myself as being whole in the world was in 1983, when I was about to go off to college. Since then, I've always felt a loss of someone (whose loss I probably mostly invented): Ginny, Sandra, Kris, Mollie, Nancy, Bill, Murrah, Julie, Sandra again...

I have not been able to BREATHE, or "be in the world," for 35 years!