We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.
Interpretation
The quote encourages us to shift our focus from what we lack to appreciating what we already possess.
Kent Nerburn's quote highlights the importance of gratitude in our lives. Instead of lamenting over the things life has denied us, we should cultivate a sense of appreciation for the blessings and opportunities we already have. This perspective can lead to a more fulfilling and contented life, fostering well-being and resilience in the face of challenges.
In practice
In a motivational speech about happiness and fulfillment.
That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.
It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it is the frequency and the earnestness with which you meditate on these things, till the truth which may be in them becomes your own, and part of your own being, that ensures your spiritual growth.
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
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