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Today's
quotation:
One does not need to fast for days and meditate
for hours
at a time to experience the sense of sublime mystery which
constantly envelops us. All
one need do is to notice
intelligently, if even for a brief moment, a
blossoming tree,
a forest flooded with autumn colors, an infant
smiling.
Simon Greenberg
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Today's
Meditation:
One
of the most constant themes of Living Life Fully-- of
quotations, articles, poems, and everything else that we
use on the site-- is that of awareness. I know that
it's a recurring theme because it's one of the most
important aspects of our lives-- without awareness, just
who or what are we?
You
see, this world is a beautiful place. Each day we're
surrounded by beauty that is always there for us, always
accessible and always true to itself. This is a
richness that we all have that not all of us actually see
or take advantage of, and that's tragic. Rather than
open our eyes to the beauty of all things, we tend to
focus on the ugly and the bad, in a large part due to what
we're given in the news media, which tends to focus on
such things.
The
effect of this focus on us should be obvious. What
goes in, of course, is what affects our mindsets most
strongly. If I can focus on the beautiful, my mind
will constantly be thinking of and appreciating
beauty. If I focus on the bad and the ugly, that's
where my mind will be.
Is
it any wonder, then, that we feel so bad about life, about
ourselves, and about other people?
The
world gives us much beauty, and if we can make that beauty
our strongest focus, guess where our minds will be most of
the time? And guess how we'll feel most of the time
if our minds are on beautiful thoughts?
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