The tendency of the human mind is to forget. We have an experience. We get to a certain point. We forget. I really think all of life is remembering, reminding one another. The way I feel is that sometimes I become temporarily insane. I need something to bring me back to sanity, to bring me back to that place-which is what good friends are about, what being in nature is about, what taking time for meditation, creativity, for prayer, for being present to beauty is about. These bring you back to that spot.

This is an important aspect of the sacred. This idea of forgetting and remembering, of coming back to the place that we remember, coming back to the state of grace where we feel a connection with things. I call these moments of our life holy moments. Moments where we feel our wholeness, when we feel intrinsically what it is to be healed. These are the moments when you say to yourself, "If I died now, it would be enough. I would feel complete." You say, "This is really it. I've tasted what it is to be human."

That is one of the reasons that we moved up to the wilderness in Colorado. I felt that I needed to make a choice in my life that supported me in that. I live on a mountain at 8500 feet, and there is an extraordinary view. I find that it takes me out of the compulsive thinking that is always dragging me into the fears of my past and the fears of the future, and cutting off the ability to live my life.

Just having the view is a great antidote to that kind of thinking. This restores me to that state where I feel connected to something good within myself. When I am like that is the only time that I can really connect on an authentic level with other people. You have to connect with yourself before you can allow someone to witness who you are. You have to be comfortable with it. Your good points as well as your growing edges. Then, when you feel connected to yourself and others, there is a third level of connectedness, which is connectedness to something larger, to the divine source.

Excerpt from a talk by Joan Boryensko M.D., courtesy the Net.

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