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Today's
quotation:
Begin
and end each
day with an
expression of gratitude and
thanksgiving.
Every morning when you awake you have
been given
the gift
of a sunrise and twenty-four hours
to live.
This is a precious gift.
You
have the wonderful opportunity to take this day
and live joyously, with appreciation for everything that
you encounter.
Take a deep breath and be grateful for this
exhilarating experience of breathing in life and love.
Similarly, end your day with an
expression of love,
and a repetition of the word for peace, “Shalom.”
Wayne Dyer
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Today's
Meditation:
As
the year draws to a close, it can be very easy to see life
as a succession of years rather than a succession of
days. If we lose our vision of how great days can be
if we make them so, we can lose our ability to make each
moment special. And as someone once said, each
moment is a sparkling snowflake, and it will very soon
melt and disappear, only to be replaced by another
sparkling snowflake.
These
moments become much, much richer if we experience them
through the filter of gratitude. We make our own
moments and our own days by the way we approach them, and
if the seed of thankfulness is in our hearts, our
experiences will be much, much richer.
We
all have been given a great gift every single day that we
have to experience the magic and wonder, the potential and
possibility, of this wonderful world in which we live, the
people with whom we live in it, and of our selves.
We have opportunity after opportunity to make each day a
very special one, yet we so often get "caught
up" in all that's going on in our lives that we
neglect our opportunities to get the most out of each
moment, to make each day the special experience that it
can be.
Love,
gratitude, and peace. What better elements can we
take with us into each day as we approach life anew?
What better perspective can we watch life from? From
which better starting point can we begin each day, each
moment, each new chapter in our lives? We've been
given all that we need to continue in this life and
actually thrive in it, and if we can stop taking all these
gifts for granted, then we can make our lives truly rich,
indeed.
As
the new year approaches, we can look ahead to a succession
of moments, and each moment we can decide how to approach
life and living. Each moment we can decide what
we're going to do and how we're going to act. It
isn't an entire year in which we will make our lives what
they are a year from now-- it's a series of many, many
moments that will help to define the directions in which
we go, and the attitudes we take with us as we do so.
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