Even though I feel calm most of the time, I don't think of myself as a Zen person. I have a bigger picture frame - though this I have cultivated through work with Being.

I can't stop being affected by the little things, nor do I want to stop those things - like unprecedented expenses, a negative comment about me from another. I allow myself to feel these states, sit with them - maybe even obsess about them too. I embrace these feelings fully and then let them go, sometimes easily and sometimes with work.

Life is not necessarily about happiness, though when happiness, joy, bliss and ecstasy happen they are wonderful. I try not to get attached to them. Instead I focus on feeling "okay" or neither happy nor sad. Out of that love comes.

I may have been born with acceptance being able to see other's points of view. It took me some time to see my own. When I was 39 years old I received a divine gift and subsequently surrendered into it. My life has been blessed since. But this doesn't mean that I don't suffer like everyone else. But suffering isn't the point. I live a life filled with meaning and purpose on the one hand and I know how to play without goals or aims.