Learn to like what doesn’t cost much. Those are the things worth your time. You can buy your way into things and places, but you can’t actually buy the experience of them. It’s not what you do; it’s what you perceive. A meaningful life isn’t how often you can saturate your senses, but how you grow to think of even the simplest, most unassuming daily things. Learn to breathe deeply. To taste food when you eat it, to sleep deeply. When you laugh, let it carry on until you’re out of breath. When you get angry, get really angry, just let things burn through you. The less you push these things away, the less they come out in debilitating ways. It’s not anger or the sadness that controls you; it’s the resistance of it that keeps them tucked in their place in your soul. Simplicity is difficult because it requires clean thinking. It’s easy to let ourselves get wound up and bound down to the ways we let our thoughts and fears run narratives into storylines into realities we live out. It’s the long, hard way to a cleansed perception. But it’s yours, and yours always. Choosing a life rooted in simplicity makes the ordinary miraculous. The words in the caption are from ‘101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think,’ and the words in the photo are from my new daily devotional that I am looking forward to sharing more details about soon. 🤍