Wednesday, October 3

Celebrating Life 10/3/18

      This is the 14th in a series of presenting posters previ-ously used here.

      I am staying in touch this way, while swamped with work. Today's gallery is about celebrating life.     

       "What man should fear is not death," said the Roman emperor Marcus
Aurelius, "what man should fear is never beginning to live."   We can be so caught up with making a living that we don't make time celebrating it.

       Having wonder for life is drinking in its beauty and maj-esty.

       It is easy being hyp-notized, a drone, moving through the demands of life, trying to attain what the world tells us is necessary for a fulfilled life.  We scurry, to make ends meet.  In the pro-cess, we disdain the joy within our reach because we grasp for what we think is more splendid or exciting.

    However, abundance is not in how much we have but in how much we enjoy.

 The change is us stop looking horizontally---getting our
 worth from others---and having a vertical and internal
perspective, instead. 
    Spending time with friends, having emotion-ally nourishing conversations is luxuriating in life's riches. This is celebrating life.  Such moments are better than a pound of gold.

     Gold neither comforts nor nourishes us. Connecting, bonding with others does. It also lengthens our life and makes us happier, less cynical.

     We were made for deep emotional closeness.  If we were meant to hold money, we would have been born with pockets. The only pocket we were born with is our heart.

     When it is filled with encouragement, hope, connection, authenticity, closeness, love, and faith, we delight in a richness far beyond any bank can provide.

     
Emotional bonding provides sanity during rough times.

     It provides comfort when we are distraught.  Such times of connecting with others let us know we are heard, understood and cared for, all of which strengthens our soul, ground-ing us for turbulent times.

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Quotes from the Posts

"I'm mindful that our thoughts affect the words we use, our words influence our actions, our actions shape our character and our character determines our destiny."

From "My Character Determines My Destiny." To read it, please click here.

"Progress not perfection, is better than no progress at all, especially when we're trying to rid ourselves from unwelcome dragons that dwell within the closets of our soul."

From, "Still Learning" which, within four days, became the most popular post
written. To read it, please click here.

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its trouble, but it does empty today of its strength"
From the post: "Life Is Not a Correspondence Program." Click here to read it.

"Even though we cannot control our circumstances, we can control how we choose to respond to them."

From, "Handling Stress and Dealing With an Emotional Bully."Click here to read this post.

"Nope, being busy isn't exciting. Boring is good. Because boring is not boring; boring is being healthy, living a balanced life that has serenity"

From: "Do You Know What It Means If You Are Too Busy?" For more, please click here.

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