Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
Interpretation
Finding joy and peace in simple moments can nurture your well-being.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the therapeutic power of quiet moments spent in nature, particularly while engaging in simple activities like stargazing and spending time with a pet. It suggests that such peaceful experiences can serve as a remedy for the stresses of life, promoting relaxation and contentment.
In practice
During a meditation session, I shared Emerson's quote to encourage mindfulness in appreciating life's simple pleasures.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Never retire! Do what you do and keep doing it. But don't do it on Friday. Take Friday off. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, go fishing...Then Monday to Thursday, do what you've been doing all your life. My point is: Live full and don't retreat.
We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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