Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
Interpretation
Finding joy and peace in simple moments can nurture your well-being.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the therapeutic power of quiet moments spent in nature, particularly while engaging in simple activities like stargazing and spending time with a pet. It suggests that such peaceful experiences can serve as a remedy for the stresses of life, promoting relaxation and contentment.
In practice
During a meditation session, I shared Emerson's quote to encourage mindfulness in appreciating life's simple pleasures.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.
If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!
I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.
It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
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