Note to Self: Beauty and Joy in Restful Peace

Note to self.

We all look more beautiful in our sleep.

Is it perhaps because in sleep all the stress and self-doubt of our wakeful life disappears?

Sleep unfurrows our brow.

When I think of the happiest people I know – without exception, they are all people who rarely let stress and self-doubt contaminate their thoughts.

We were all born to live joyfully and fearlessly. That’s our natural state. Why do we so easily surrender our natural state?