Today I'm taking part in Fiona Robyn's The Most Beautiful Thing Blog Splash to celebrate her new novel The Most Beautiful Thing. Bloggers from around the world are participating and sharing their most beautiful thing today. It's hard to pinpoint a most beautiful thing that is tangible for me. I see so much beauty these days. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with it.
I think how we feel and what we see as beautiful depends completely on our inner state. For me, right now, the most beautiful thing is to be alive and to share with others while I am here. I feel so happy when I am able to connect with people on some level with what I write and even happier when I discover that what I have written has helped people in some way. I guess this is what I have to offer here.
For two years straight, I wrote lessons here on every topic under the sun—fear, stress, love, patience, happiness, yoga, meditation, loving yourself, courage, procrastination, etc. I wrote those lessons not because I believe I'm an expert on any topic, but because they were words I needed to hear. What I realized, through my two years of writing lessons here, is that we all go through the same emotions, feelings, etc. and we are all connected to one another on that level.
Our circumstances and experiences may vary, but what makes us human is the same. Through that understanding, I found the courage to write not just this blog, but also my book by the same title about my 15-year journey with my husband, a former Korean Buddhist monk (Lessons from the Monk I Married, Seal Press 2012).
By opening up and sharing my journey in a deeply honest way, my hope was that others would also be able to reflect on their own journeys and own truths and not be afraid to share them and to live them. In January 2012, I hosted 31 writers on this blog who all shared life lessons of their own. I have met so many kindred souls through this blog and through my book. The sharing and connecting with others that has happened as a result of my blog and book have been the most beautiful thing for me and I am so grateful to every single one of you who have been a part of it!
Thank you Fiona for allowing me to reflect on the most beautiful thing. I wish you the greatest success with your new novel!
perfect. beautiful _/\_
ReplyDeleteThis is such a touching post, Katherine. I do agree with you in that the connection we have with others is indeed something so beautiful not to share! Congrats on the success of your book! It is wonderful to see how something small can bloom into something bigger. I hope you don't mind, but I am sharing this post on my blog: http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com
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Kathy
Kathy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and leaving a comment here and for the congrats! And thanks so much for sharing my post! all the best to you!
Katherine
Katherine, this is beautiful. Isn't it wonderful when you know what you can share with other people? You are so generous in sharing your life's lessons to a lot of people and also giving others a chance to share to other people their own. God has indeed made you a special instrument. Wishing you more success on your novel.
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