Deeply

Live deeply
Travel far
Engage creatively

This is something I randomly found on a website I was looking at. I am moved. What does it mean to "live deeply"? For some reason this seems like the thing that I most want to do in my life, yet I am a bit unsure of what it means. Live deeply in what? Live deeply in my passions perhaps? Or live deeply in my faith, maybe? It seems to me that I should live deeply in whatever it is that I am doing...I hope someday that someone will say of me that I live deeply. I suppose that is really how I already approach most things in my life. In every interaction and in each task before me, doing my best to be fully present and fully aware, I seek the deep caverns of experience.
Experience is a really funny thing...I was reading Henry James's "The Art of Fiction" this week and his description of experience is really beautiful-- I just have to print it here..."Experience is never limited and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web, of the finest silken threads, suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative much more when it happens to be that of a [wo]man of genius-- it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations..."