Lloyd Goldstein

As the body lets go the spirit can fly free. It may be helpful to practice compassion and awareness through meditation and yoga. Through these practices my body and mind become clear and quiet. I begin to realize my connectedness to aging and dying persons. I sense their true spirit seeking its full expression and ultimate freedom, their bodies becoming less and less vital and important. I also begin to sense my own spirit readying itself for that transition. This feels like good practice for the time when I must face the challenges of aging and dying. If you don’t like the word “spirit”, think of quantum physics and the recent discoveries that time and space are not necessarily as we perceive them with our physical senses. There is more to us than meets the eye. And again, as Thich Nhat Hanh has said, “It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice.”