Living with thankfulness can improve our life. Being grateful keeps us committed to ourselves and taking full responsibility of all our actions, reactions and the effects without the blame game dramas. There's no self-pity, resentment or jealousy but in their place, loving kindness, compassion, equanimity and joy.
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
~ Thornton Wilder ~
Another week is up for my personal reflection of all the blessings that have been bestowed on me and it is liberating to share my random list of gratitude;
2. I am grateful that lo kong did pretty well at the Penang Bridge International Marathon and I am thankful for the improvements to his legs as there is less trauma felt on his knees this time. I hope he'll do better at the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon next week.
3. I am grateful for the opportunities and the good health to travel frequently.
4. I am grateful my son is coping well with his on-going internship.
5. I am grateful for the peace and quiet at home, the cool breeze and cloudy skies each day and the on-going inspiration for my writings. I am thankful that I am able to do things at my own leisure, in my own space and anyhow I designed.
"As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way."
~ Sharon Salzberg ~
2 Bubbles:
True! Give thanks always.
Yes, give thanks and praise always...
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