life transition Archives - Maurice Leavitt

17 Jun 2025

Following the Voice, Learning to Let Go

by Maurice | posted in: Adventure, Compassion, Embrace Change, life transition, philosophy, Psychology | 0

This morning I sit in a small Istanbul coffee shop along the Bosphorus. The city hums and pulses around me — cars, motorbikes, trams, people rushing off to work, ferries gliding across the water, tourists drifting toward the Old City or wandering through Taksim Square. My chair is stiff. My … Read More

5 May 2025

Letting Go to Begin Again

by Maurice | posted in: grief, life transition, Retirement, simple living, Thailand | 1

It’s been anything but quiet, and not by accident. A lot has changed. Some of it was planned—some of it arrived like a wave I couldn’t stop. And didn’t want to stop. I quit my job after 25 years. Sometimes I call it retirement, but at 56, I feel too … Read More

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Life is not something to master—it’s something to meet, moment by moment.
Not in some imagined future or perfected version of yourself, but in this exact situation, with your present state of mind.

Meditation, and any practice that softens the grip of ego, anchors us here—not to escape, but to see more clearly.
When we are truly present, we stop missing our lives.
Awareness becomes the practice.
And life itself, the path.

Love refuses to be pinned down.
It slips past our definitions, outgrows our neat explanations, and humbles our certainty.

It cannot be taught like a skill, yet it can be practiced—in the way we listen, in the way we stay, in the way we hold another’s joy or sorrow as if it were our own.

Love can feel like a warm hand or a sharp mirror. It can open us or undo us—often both in the same breath.

Perhaps love was never meant to be understood.
Perhaps it was meant to be lived—messily, fiercely, and without guarantees.