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To Exist in Actuality
by Dawn Anderson

Sunday, September 19, 2010
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Breathe in, breath out, the instructor

said.

Silently repeat I on the inhalation and

am on the exhalation.

I-am

I-am

Strange words to reflect upon, I thought.

Too self important – too self involved.

I-am

I-am

Then slowly I smiled, for what is I am, but to be.

 


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Reviewed by Amor Sabor 11/10/2010
Loving these thoughts, Dawn. Very nice work.
Amor
Reviewed by Sheila Roy 9/27/2010
Thank you for sharing this. Thoughts that plague us all:)
Sheila
Reviewed by J'nia Fowler 9/22/2010
I think, therefore I am. Rene De Carte. Someone asked God who he was and he replied "I am that I am." I like your conclusion.
Reviewed by Liana Margiva 9/21/2010
'...For what is I am, but to be'----------- VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva
Reviewed by Art Sun 9/20/2010
Nice thoughts Dawn...meditation is one of those emotional characterizations of thyself...one only has to escape reality to find those ...actualities...

nice...

Art Sun...
Reviewed by Joyce Bell 9/20/2010
...AND WHAT IS TO BE, BUT WHAT IS...EXISTING IN ACTUALITY. SOUNDS LIKE WONDERFUL THERAPY TO ME...I'M GOING TO TRY IT. THIS WORK LED ME TO REFLECT ON THE WORD OF GOD..."I AM", HE SAID, "TELL THEM THAT I AM THAT I AM". FOR ME, REPEATING THESE WORDS REMINDS ME OF 'WHOSE' I AM...A CHILD OF THE KING OF KINGS, I AM! A MOST INSPIRING WORK...SO WELL DONE AND ENJOYED. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS KEEPER. LOVE AND BLESSINGS, IN FAITH, JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Reviewed by Christine Tsen 9/20/2010
A retreat from dizzying life, lovely poem Dawn!
I too like to say other things than "I am", but you are so wise taking a class. I just came up with this makeshift on my own, but I like to breathe in and out colors, and the words light, love, joy and for me, because it is my faith, Jesus.
I get the wiggles after five minutes anyway and start swearing under my breath instead!
Blessings,
Christine
Reviewed by Andy Turner 9/20/2010
...or not to be.
There is the I AM, yet our I am is... ego?
Deep and more brain draining than one realises.
I think therefore I am... Am what?
Reviewed by Gene Williamson 9/20/2010
I recall, Dawn...

to be\I am\you are\we are\us...always.

-gene
Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader) 9/20/2010
Brilliant poem. It really doesn't get more basic than that. I am. That's it. Everything which comes after is a surrogate to which we transfer our indigenous identities. I am this, I am that, I do this, etc. All phony extensions of self in which we lose our true essence. In my recent poem Skyscrapers I talked about this too. It's all about phony extension of indigenous power to outside things then reclaiming it by way of asking the Universe for help. Please give me, nothing happens. Please help me, you receive sustenance, please use me (most highly evolved request in the Universe) and you're off and running with infinite power.
Reviewed by Morgan Merriweather 9/20/2010
peaceful. and grabbed a moment. - Morgan
Reviewed by E T Waldron 9/20/2010
so true,love the way you did this!;-)
Reviewed by Amber Moonstone 9/20/2010
yes, yes yes, to be in the moment, lovely place to be...

Peace, love and light,
Amber
Reviewed by Christine Alwin 9/20/2010
Sometimes we become so robotic..that this truly gives us our moment..our time..this is great Dawn~
Reviewed by F William Broome 9/20/2010
In a beautifull form, you bring it about. Well conceived and writtenn for each of us. - Bill
Reviewed by jude forese 9/20/2010
and to become more of what you are ;) nice work, Dawn ...
Reviewed by L Hippler 9/20/2010
You definitely captured the moment, Dawn.
Reviewed by Gianetta Ellis 9/20/2010
Revelation, appreciation, exhilaration . . . realization of limitless be.ing.
Reviewed by Paul Judges 9/20/2010
I really enjoyed this one, Dawn
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader) 9/20/2010
There you go. Besides, Dawn, if you are self-involved who will be for you? I like the A equals B situation here, and you are right. We are what, and who we are, sometimes in spite of ourselves.
Reviewed by Rose Rideout 9/20/2010
I breath in - I breath out, I do exist as I am me. Great Dawn.

Newfie Hugs, Rose
Reviewed by Felix Perry 9/20/2010
Interesting thoughts indeed and ones to reflect on with a smile for we can be what we choose to be if we dream...keep breathing.
fee
Reviewed by George Carroll 9/19/2010
I think, therefore I am, a philosophical fact, I am real therefore I exist. Another poem that plunges into the psyche of existance. Marvelous, curls my mind this early in the morning.

George
Reviewed by John Flanagan 9/19/2010
Dawn's cogito ergo sum expressed in the gentlest, least selfish of ways, discovery and definition through meditation.

John
Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg 9/19/2010
thought provoking...definitely liking it.
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