Pancakes and Porsches: The Art of Savoring Life’s Delicious Surprises

Shaman Dao
5 min readJan 11, 2024
Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

I once posted a video where I expressed my gratitude for finding a dollar on my hike. Some people reacted with a laughing emoji.

Yet, the previous week, I found a nice twenty dollar bill on my walk. The week after that mighty dollar find, a cool ten thousand dollars dropped into my bank account. Where I gave grace and gratitude to all that is and all that was.

My life wasn’t always like this. Where my mornings would start off with abundance and end with magic. I was once like many people, laughing at the smaller finds, constantly searching for the bigger ones.

I played the victim when I could have played the main character. Not because I didn’t want to, it was because the directors in the first half of my life taught me how to play the victim.

Each of our realities depends on how we see the world through the lens given to us when we were younger. Many children grow up to never check back to Life’s optometrist to upgrade or diagnose their lens of perception. They continue to see the world as if they were the same children, with the same emotions from the same experiences way back when.

The thicker the trauma, the heavier the lens. The more difficult it is to see the truth, even…

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Shaman Dao

I write about practical spirituality and things that go bump in the night. Find out your ‘why’ with The Quantum Why Meditation https://www.shamandao.com/links