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Today's
quotation:
Follow the
wisdom provided by
nature. Everything in moderation-- sunlight, water, nutrients. Too
much of a good thing will topple
your structure. You can't harvest
what you don't sow. So plant your
desires, gently nurture them,
and they will be rewarded with abundance.
Vivian Elizabeth Glyck
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Today's
Meditation:
It's so easy sometimes to lose sight of the idea of
moderation. We want to eat, and if something tastes
really good to us, we want to eat more of it. We
like to collect things, but is it possible that calling it
"collecting" is simply a way of justifying
having much more than we need of something?
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It's
important that we not just learn moderation, but
practice it in all we do. The world is full of
examples of people who have refused to be moderate
and who have paid a very heavy price for it.
If we aren't moderate in our eating, we face severe
health problems. If we aren't moderate in our
drinking, we face problems with health and society
at large. If we aren't moderate in our
spending, we can cause ourselves truly severe
problems in our relationships and our ability to do
rather simple things, like pay the rent or the
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Moderation
is one of those things that doesn't show us very clearly
how we've benefited from practicing it, but which gives us
truly grave lessons about itself after we've refused to
practice it. We see plenty of people suffering in
life because of their lack of moderation in some area or
areas of their lives, but we need to look closely and
carefully at those people who are moderate to see the
relationship between their moderation and their happiness
or contentedness with life.
I try to be moderate in all that I do, though I don't
always succeed. And I try this because of all the
people I've known who haven't practiced moderation, and
the negative things that they've suffered through because
of their lack of moderation. Sometimes the bad
examples are more effective teachers than the good ones,
it seems.
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