“We often see the grass greener on the other side, but it is only green where you water it and nurture it.”
-Maximus Escouri
Tag: gratitude
Let me quote my mom and myself for a minute.
Yesterday my mom texted me: “I finally have an armoire to put my sheets in. Yay! So silly the things that make you happy when you get to my age. Have a wonderul day. Love you!!!” And I replied to her: “It’s beautiful when the simple things make you happy mom ❤️”
I have been struggling with gratitude recently. As I said to someone a few days ago:
“I feel like the practice of gratitude for me…I have to keep working on it….its like I get called / lured away from this gratitude, by these social cues / lures for things that I desire, not really material things but more ideas of a ‘better life’, like an amazing self-business or making so much $ from selling books, or having the whole family and everything with amazing job….but I look at people with fame, with $ and status, with great work, and I know they have sacrificed, probably things I dont want to sacrifice, things I truly value, like the people in my life, my loved ones. health, people, meaning and comfort. so this means that really, I think I have what I value the most, and I dont want to lose it soon, not before its natural time….I have to be grateful. and its this constant exercise of not only telling myself that this life is ok, but looking at it in its gorgeous illustrious beauty, because it is beautiful. gratitude really gives us beautiful lenses to see everything with.”
So, I think it is beautiful when we can appreciate the small, simple things. In fact I think appreciating the small simple things expands them in a way to be bigger and even more beautiful things. A key to happiness? Hmm….
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Moving. Again
Blessings on you all.
This is the 3rd time I’m moving this year.
The first time was moving my stuff out of my childhood (and parts of my adulthood) home. Quite painful. We had to sell it. Thankfully I had many weeks to do the moving, which meant I had time to process emotionally, and could properly say goodbye. It was difficult.
The second time was a couple of weeks ago, moving from my office to another space where I would have no privacy. This again meant loss of space and having to throw many things out.
Now I’m moving from my rental to my 1st co-op (yay!). But, I’m still throwing things out. This whole thing is difficult, throwing things out. Deciding. Letting go. And moving spaces.
Thank you for this Blessedness
And help me be true to my Loved values.
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The Present Moment is a Gift
The Present moment is a gift. That’s why they call it the “present.”
“Here’s the thing, if we have goals and dreams, and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets…We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create and to forgive ourselves for creating them.”
–Kathryn Schulz
First Vlog (Video log) clip is about enjoying the Now:
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Thank You for Where I Am
Was having issues with the audio, so couldnt include an intro and outro this time. But will try to have it working for next time. Enjoy!
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Enjoy the Present Now
If you are not enjoying the Present Now,
it will be harder to enjoy the Present if and when you get what you want…
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Happy With What You Have Now
Happy with what you have now,
is a precursor to having what you want…
I want to Be Happy
Where I am Now.
Nothing else can come and
Give me Happiness.
The Key to Happiness is only found
In this Moment.
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Open
Open,
OPEN,
OPEN UP to the Beautiful Life I have Now.
Thank you for all of this.
Theres so much out there to explore.
Then again, theres so much in here to be grateful for.
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“Whatever You Can Get, You Can Unget”
I’m very happy that when the speaker of this talk asked “What do you need to get to be happy?”, I said “nothing.”
The word “get” triggered that this would be a dependency, and, I dont believe I need a dependency for happiness.
There may be situations that help, but no matter what, happiness is accessible, I think.
Easy for me to say in my apartment, secure, safe, warm, healthy, loved, ambitious, alive, and vibrant.
But, Thank God, it is easy for me to say.
If I could kiss every moment,
with full blown lips,
I would tell it “Thank you for being here,”
to let it know that its
presence is appreciated.
You know, I can do this.
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Feel Appreciation
Feel appreciation. Don’t look just to think it. Feel it;
without words.
Literally.
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Spark The Flame ebook
Today is publishing day for Spark the Flame ebook! The printed version will likely be out in early 2016.
This ebook is free for everyone, forever. I hope it is useful to many people around the world for generations. Please share it with anyone and enjoy.
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The official publishing of Spark the Flame, the book, is coming soon. Should be available in print, and for free download on this website, before this Christmas. Maybe much sooner 🙂
Things are fine for you when you feel fine for you. They may come out of nowhere, and shock you, but if you hold the “this is fine”, “it is going to be ok” feeling constant, things reorder themselves to be fine for you.
If your perspective is at a general high/up/optimistic constant, Life will appear magical, because things are reordered in ways that appear crazy, to meet you on your perspective. Throughout the low times, your high perspective continues to carry you through, until Life comes seemingly out of nowhere again to meet your high perspective with a beautiful gracious blessed set of events.
Keep your perspective high, your optimism, and you invite the perception and experience of a charmed Life.
Thank you