Reading - Each Day a New Beginning

"Only those who dare, truly live." Ruth P. Freedman

We receive from life, from every experience, from each interaction according to what we have given. When we commit ourselves fully to an experience, it will bless us. When we give ourselves wholly to any moment, our awareness of reality will be heightened. When we risk knowing someone else, truly knowing them, we will find ourselves.

How common, and how unfortunate, that so many of us "escape" life! We escape through hiding, hiding from ourselves and others. We fear self-disclosure, our own and someone else's.

---they go on about steps and meetings.
I don't know.....
but it says:

"The riches of a full life are so easily mine, and so deservedly mine."

I wonder if other practices - like
mindfulness
and exercise
and the birds
and girlfriends
and nature
and piano
and needlework
and work
can do it...