gifts & gratitude
Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for. — Barry Neil Kaufman
Caren Albers • Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life
Declare war on the negative bias: Focus on the things that go right instead of the things that go wrong — did the checkout line at the grocery store go quick? Did you avoid red lights on your way to work? If all you did was look for things to appreciate, you would live a spectacular life.
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It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
if you can’t find joy in a cup of coffee, you won’t find it in a yacht. gratitude treats all things the same.
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden.
PULL THE THORNS FROM YOUR heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you,” wrote Rumi,
Sharon Salzberg • Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
In life, there is no gift as overlooked or inevitable as failure. I’ve had quite a few and have learned to relish them,