Sun 29 Apr 2007
I found a couple nice quotes that relate to being happy and content. Here’s the first one:
“If you are not spending all of your waking life in discontent, worry, anxiety, depression, despair, or consumed by other negative states; if you are able to enjoy simple things like listening to the sound of the rain or the wind; if you can see the beauty of clouds moving across the sky or be alone at times without feeling lonely or needing the mental stimulus of entertainment; if you find yourself treating a complete stranger with heartfelt kindness without wanting anything from him or her…it means that a space has opened up, no matter how briefly, in the otherwise incessant stream of thinking that is the human mind” - Eckhart Tolle
April 30th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
April 30th, 2007 at 1:47 am
I love it. Thanks.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
I started reading that and I thought to myself, “That sounds like Tolle!” and it is! Thanks for this, Corilee!
May 1st, 2007 at 2:43 am
Thanks gorgeous, that is beautiful and timely to read for me today
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:25 am
Yesterday, in the break room at work, I was eating dinner with three other nurses. One commented on what an emotional troublesome time she has been having with her son. She said, “I’m glad to be at work so that I can forget about it all.”. We all agreed that working (as a nurse) removes us temporarily from all the other stuff in our minds. This quote says it perfectly, “if you find yourself treating a complete stranger with heartfelt kindness without wanting anything from him or her…it means that a space has opened up, no matter how briefly, in the otherwise incessant stream of thinking that is the human mind”. This is one of the reasons why I love being a nurse.
May 24th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Love is the blueprint for happiness.