 One of the weird skills that I have or inclinations is to come up with acronyms that help to remind me various values, principles, you know, virtues that I want to live by or that's helpful for a particular situation. And I try to also use as many moments in my life as possible to bring a spiritual perspective or to see how it contributes to spiritual growth, hence the idea of a life monastery, you know, the life itself being like a personal monastery program that you can design for yourself. So as I was putting on my contact lenses in the morning, you know, I thought about that verse in the Bible that says, you know, put on, you know, I think it was the Apostle Paul who said as he was like putting on clothes in the morning. So I'm imagining myself putting on the armor of God and putting on the, you know, like the various pieces of clothing. It's like some, you know, the, the, I forgot the gloves of courage, the vest of integrity or whatever. I mean, it's just the idea that turning a like a personal routine into a spiritual practice into a embodied exercise for perspective, essentially. And so I came up with this, you know, I came up with this thing where if I'm putting on my contact lens, I'm like, how can I see more spiritually today in, in as many situations as possible? And so I always begin with gratitude. I don't know why because it's been the most, the easiest doorway that I've discovered into a spiritual way of being for me is, is through gratitude. And so I think of it as a, as a gratitude lens. I'm like, how can I see today with more gratitude? And then I started thinking, well, what does lens stand for? L E N S. And so naturally my mind started working on that. And so I want to share with you what I've got thus far. And I, I welcome you to comment below to see if any of this resonates with you. Maybe it'll inspire you to, as you do your morning routine, to see if you can bring some kind of spiritual perspective to that exercise, to that nest, the necessary daily, you know, ritual, right? Of doing your morning hygiene or morning routine. Okay. So gratitude, as I've already mentioned, that's pretty clear what that, what that means that, you know, grateful for, well, for life itself, for the opportunity to live this life. Grateful that I even remember gratitude that I even remember or have the impulse to be grateful. You know, I could also say grace, the grace of God, of the universe, of my higher self, giving me the impulse, the intuition to, to give thanks and to try to find a more uplifting perspective. Okay. So what does lens stand for then? As I'm putting on my contact lens, I'm thinking, what does L E N S stand for? So L, I said, well, one of the things I most love about this life and what has been given to us in terms of the security of our soul is that we can therefore take everything lightly. So lightness is what to me L will stand for lightness. Like, how can I go through today with the remembrance of the lightness of all of this? Because otherwise, well, life is very heavy. Um, we are in that our souls are light, but we are our souls are embodied here in a very heavy body, very dense experience. Um, there's a lot of struggle. There's a lot of physical struggle, emotional struggle, mental struggle, all of it's very dense. And so the natural experience is gravity, right? We're being pulled to this earth to experience gravity, not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually, et cetera. And if we were to only give way to gravity, what happens? We're completely just laying flat on the flat on the ground. That's that's the natural occurrence of gravity or laying flat on, but we have to get ourselves up to do things, to benefit ourselves and benefit others, to survive, to thrive, to expand, to grow, to learn, to experience. And so for me, I not only is there gravity that pulls us down, but I imagine there is a force that's pulling us up as well. You know, there's a force that's pulling us up. So lightness that brings us lightness, you know, the opposite of gravity. And that's a nice dynamic because yes, daily life, living circumstances will bring us down again and again and again throughout the whole day, throughout the week, but then there's the other force of light, right? The force of light that, that lifts us up and brings us remembrance of, you know what, it's okay. Somehow, magically, it's all going to work out. And with that reminder, we can be, we could take things lightly again. We can look at struggles and difficulties in our life with hopefully a bit more perspective of, oh, well, well, let's go on in the, out in the, in the acronym. Okay. So L's lightness, E is eternity is what I like to reflect on the eternal nature of our soul and of God or of the whole of a consciousness. Okay. Eternality is the, is the state of eternalness, right? And that helps to bring me lightness because I'm like, oh, well, this is not the only life. Am I again sharing with you my spiritual worldview? And you could take this however you want to interpret it. Okay. Um, but eternality is, it goes on. It goes on forever. And there will be another way of thinking about it is there are unlimited opportunities. There are unlimited, there is no end to the opportunities that I have that you have, all of us have for growth, for experiencing love, for experiencing fun, for creative experimentation, for learning to be wise, for making mistakes. There are no, there's no limit to the opportunities that we are given, the chances we are given, eternality. So that way I don't have to be downtrodden when I make a mistake, when I fail, so-called fail, when I have intending to, you know, be a certain, embody a certain virtue or value, and I completely botched it. I did the opposite. Unlimited opportunities. I can try again and again and again and again forever. And eternality also means, well, my body is going to expire for sure, but my soul will not. And my soul will take on another body or, you know, if it wants to or whatever. There's more opportunities for growth and for love and creativity and lightness and for connection and for understanding forever and ever, greater and greater understanding, wisdom, love, creative power, and gratitude, eternality, definitely gives me lightness, definitely gives me gratitude. So what does N stand for? So L stands for lightness, E stands for eternality, N stands for, well, I'm actually open to your feedback on this because originally I said N stands for neutrality, the reminder of the Tao farmer who, different things happen to this Taoist farmer and he just says, we'll see, you know, people around him are like, oh, I'm so sorry that happened to you. He says, we'll see. And the next day something else happens that turned around the previous situation and everyone's like, oh my god, such, such fortune you have. And he says, we'll see. So neutrality was the original principle I was playing with, but now I'm like, yeah, it's not inspiring enough for me. So maybe something like nourishment, like every situation brings nourishment. Every situation has the opportunity to bring nourishment to our souls, good or bad, you know, so nourishment might be one. But then I also think of the word nexus. Nexus is also very inspiring to me, which is the idea that every moment is a choice. Every moment is a nexus. I can go this way. I can go that way. I can service to self, service to others. I can go on an upward path towards God, towards consciousness, towards well-being, or go on downwards path towards addiction, towards wallowing, towards, you know, past conditioning, nexus. Every moment is a nexus. So that's the one I'm playing with right now. And finally, s, you know, s stands for safe. Well, originally the idea that the word was stage, but then I added the word safe stage. So s stands for safe stage, safe stage. What does that mean? Safe stage for what? Life is a stage. Life is a play. Life is a game. Life to me, life is a, like I'm performing for all the soul team and the soul mates who are watching me play this game called life. They're, they're like, wow, you are so brave. You too, by the way, you are so brave to come into this life, to embody yourself in such a heavy dense place. Your light, the lightness and power of your soul collapsed into this body, this frail body. You are so brave and you are here performing for the thousands or maybe billions of souls who are watching right now, play this game called life, this game called earth, earth life. And it's a safe stage because we go on, the body will die away, but the soul will go on and, and nothing, nothing, nothing can damage the soul. It doesn't matter what kind of trauma, what kind of dramatic, physical, mental, emotional abuse that we get to accidents that completely mangle up the body and or, or destroy our loved ones or no trauma will leave a scar on the soul that cannot be healed. From what I understand, again, take this how you will, interpret this into your own worldview and how you might use this as nourishment. We will have trauma. We, we have had trauma. And when we, when we die, we get to the other side and there are hospitals, so-called hospitals on the other side to help us recover from that trauma, to remember again the wholeness of the soul that nothing, nothing actually happened. We just went to a very scary game. We played a very scary game where we like fell into cliff, you know, we jumped off the cliff and fell into, fell on top of spikes. You know, we ate a poisonous mushroom and we got burned by the dragon, whatever. We played this game that had a lot of scary monsters and we got, you know, we got died many deaths in this game. But then we got healed again. We became whole again. We realized, oh, that was a game. Wow. Wow. It was a lot of experiences. Yeah, it was one of the tough experiences, but nothing actually scarred us. Nothing will damage your soul. Nothing. None of the, nothing that happens to you and nothing that you do. All the mistakes, all the evil that you may have done, all the sin, so-called, that you may have done, all the, all the failure, all the things that you, you wish you didn't do, nothing will damage your soul. It is a completely safe stage for performance, performance in there. It's really for, for personal growth, a safe stage to also give love, to receive love, a safe stage to remember that giving love is not a transactional economic thing where it's like, well, I only have so much to give. That's it. I'm done. But a safe stage to practice receiving divine love available at all moments to fill us back up again so we can give more love. Now, of course, it's, it's hard. It's hard, right? The denseness of this life makes us think, you know, I've given enough love today. It's only been 730 a.m. and I've already given enough love. I'm done to the day, you know? It's like, I'm done. Now I'm all about receiving love now, right? A safe stage for that. A safe stage for all of it. So that's what I'm playing with. Gratitude, lens, lightness, eternality, nexus, choices, and safe stage. And all of it brings me gratitude. Back to gratitude. The gratitude, lens, how I see life and, and the opportunities to make choices that bring more love to, to the world. Give more love to others. Give more love to myself. Give more love to life, to animals, to plants, to situations. Well, that's, that's crazy, crazy old me loving acronyms and, and, but I find it inspiring and helpful. You know, it's like, I put on my contact lens every day. I might as well use that exercise as some kind of reminder system for what this is all about. So thank you for listening, watching. Appreciate your support. And I look forward to seeing if any of this resonates with you. If you have any, your own acronym or anything else you want to share below, I welcome that. Thanks.