“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
-- Denis Waitley
Peace, joy, health and well-being can only be found inside us. They exist within us now, waiting to be discovered. Yet we tend to look to the outside world to satisfy our needs and longings.
Our outer life reflects back to us the way we think, feel and behave. The outer world is all effects. Go to the source inside for all of life’s treasures.
How are you searching for peace and contentment outside of yourself?
"The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when… When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job.’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now."
-- Marshall Goldsmith
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Nice posting Wren. I think back to my younger years when I was married and raising two sons. We lived in a "yuppie" kind of community and it was "We have to have this car" or we had to have this or that to be happy little realizing that once you attained "that"one, there was always the "next" one to get to. It was a never ending cycle. What I failed to see initially, and thank God it didn't last TOO long, was that I really had it all. A good wife (at the time), a good career, two fine sons, a good home, and all I needed to do was step back and take a look around me to see that. Thanks for reminding me even now to take a step outside myself and truly appreciate what I have...Tim
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"We posess the eyes through which the universe gazes with wonder upon its own majesty."
