Sharing with you excerpts from the article "Learn to love and Accept Yourself Wherever You Go" from "Tiny Buddha"...something good to reflect on as we recharge for the weekend :) "I learned the blatant lesson that happiness begins and ends within me...excess imagination about the future is different from goal setting, which separates us from the beauty of what is available to us now. It taught me to find the joys in the present moment, to enjoy where I live, the community around me.... When I yearn to reach out for something—buying an item of clothing, wanting to take a trip—I ask my heart why I think this item will please me. Am I grasping onto something deeper? While this is an extreme case of the inability to escape oneself, we all experience this in our lives in various ways. We think if we get a new job, our fear of failure will disappear only to discover it is heightened with our new role. We can point the finger to people, jobs, relationships, even cultures, but until we turn the finger back to ourselves, we will face a life of pain and constant struggle. In each situation, we must ask, what am I learning from this? What is this telling me about myself? We are such beautiful and complicated creatures. No technology in the world can tap into the mystery of the heart, of the soul, of our dreams. Wherever you go in your day—to the grocery store or to a new city, to a friend’s home or a different room of the house—be grateful that you will never escape yourself. Be grateful that you have this lifetime to learn to love and accept yourself. In a world so full of travel and movement, it is important we take a moment to pause and reflect on the sacredness of stillness and quietude within ourselves. It is my wish that we can all sit comfortably in a chair someday as we soften in body and in heart, full of gray hairs and wrinkles—that we may smile widely from each memory contributing to our wear and know we really have nowhere to go. Everything we need has been inside us from the start."
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 02:37:56 +0000
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