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?
Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
Gratefulness makes us aware of the gift and makes us happy. As long_x000D_ _x000D_ as we take things for granted they don't make us happy. Gratefulness is_x000D_ _x000D_ the key to happiness. Practicing gratitude is so central to my spirituality.
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
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