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September
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Today's
quotation:
One of Dr. Johnson’s ingredients of happiness
was, “A little less time than you want.”
That means always to have
so many things you
want
to see, to have,
and to do, that no day
is quite long
enough
for all you think you would like to get done before
you go to bed.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Today's
Meditation:
What a
difference it can make in our lives to make an effort to
expand our horizons and interests. Life can become
something completely new if we open up our interests, if
we try to explore concepts and ideas that we might never
have thought of before. The more we want to see and
do, the less likely we are to spend our time being
passive, just sitting or hanging around with "nothing
to do" when we could be getting even more out of
life.
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I
know that my life became much richer when I started riding
my bike more. I've seen beautiful scenery and gotten
some great exercise, just using something I already had in
my garage. When I started studying spirituality, an
entire world of literature opened up to me that I didn't
even know existed.
I
don't have to try to be an expert in anything in
particular. I don't have to spend hours and hours
every day pursuing my new interests. But if I can be
interested in animals and people and bugs and birds for
example, in how they live and what kinds of things they
do, then there's always some sort of information to find
somewhere, even if it's just an article in today's
newspaper.
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We
choose in our lives what we want to do, what we want to
learn, how we want to expand our lives. We even
choose whether we want to expand our lives.
Sometimes we already have enough, and other times we have
too much, so developing new interests isn't always appropriate. But if you know anyone who complains
that "there isn't anything to do," that person
really needs to open up his or her eyes and mind to see
what's really here for all of us.
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Questions to
consider:
Why might we tend to limit our interests or not search
out new ones?
How can we find new things that we're interested in?
What's the value in learning new things in many
different areas? |
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For
further thought:
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest
people are those who do it
to the limit of their ability.
We can be completely present.
We can be all here. We can give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
Mark van Doren |
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