Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
Interpretation
Slow down in life to find peace and deeper enjoyment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of slowing down and being mindful in our daily lives. In a fast-paced world, taking time for introspection, meditation, and enjoying literature can lead to profound personal growth and fulfillment.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, I quoted this to emphasize the importance of self-care.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
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