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What do we really need to be happy and live a peaceful life? What are the essentials for you?3/16/2014
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MaryLynn
3/16/2014 12:08:26 am
During the last five years of challenging events in my life -- including a very difficult economic and employment climate, I realize that in truth -- I need very little. The things that make me most happy are: feeling good and pain free, enjoying a beautiful day walking with my dog and/or friends and family members, having enough money to pay my bills and not feel that the wolf is at the door -- and being creative, writing both fiction and non-fiction and hopefully, in some way working toward clarity and inspiration and helping to illuminate the challenges of our human condition. That's it. That's all. 3/16/2014 01:45:49 am
So lovely "Madame K"...
MaryLynn
3/19/2014 11:28:22 am
Just beautiful Wendy! Yes, it is often the simple, silly and funny things that cross our paths everyday that are just chock full of joy if we would only notice them.
Sally Franz
3/17/2014 04:39:17 am
To be happy and to have peace for me means to let go of my vision of the outcome and trust that my Lord Jesus has the outcome handled. I still have to go forward in life, but it is without fear. If I live without fear I am joyful, happy peaceful and a whole lot more fun to be around. After all it is an illusion that we have control of anything in the universe anyway.
MaryLynn
3/19/2014 11:31:04 am
Absolutely! We must put our intention out there -- but then we've got to, as a friend of mine reminds me, let the universe figure it out. We can only control our intentions -- but we have to leave room for something better and greater than we can even imagine. We have to trust that a higher power and more powerful creative force within the universe is moving things in a direction that we can't always understand.
Margaret B.Pravata
3/17/2014 07:45:15 am
Fear is a necessary part of us. Would you walk off a cliff ? As long as fear does not become obsessive.That's why we were given common sense....but I'm glad to hear that you are happy, Whatever floates your boat.....MB.P. 3/18/2014 07:26:18 am
MaryLynn, your commentary is truly wise. Dealing with life as you suggest is paramount. That kind of mindset must become innate within each human being on planet Earth. And, too, accepting our destiny is so, so necessary. it is also more than necessary and essential that each of us reaches for and hopefully attains the so-called higher state of consciousness; it is a gift like no other.... It is there and only there where one accepts the condition which is his/her individual destiny. It is for each of us to realize and accept life as it is handed so differently to each of us.
MaryLynn
3/19/2014 11:26:49 am
I agree Emmanuel. We must embrace whatever destiny sets before us. I remember an old Scottish woman saying many years ago: "Relish with content whatever Providence has sent." It's a wonderful ideal to live by, though not always easy to attain. But I do realize more than ever that it is the seemingly simple things -- that bring me the greatest happiness. And cultivating one's inner world makes it possible to appreciate almost anything in the so-called "outer world." Leave a Reply. |
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