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Please keep your negativity out of this thread
- Thread starter Geoff-Allen
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Geoff-Allen
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Benefits of practicing gratitude -
It’s much easier to focus on the bad than the good, but negativity is not going to get you anywhere. However, there are unlimited benefits of gratitude.
It’s easy to see the worst in a situation. It’s easy to take your loved ones for granted. It’s easy to forget how good you have it.
Your life might not be perfect — but you should not spend all of your time complaining about what you do not have when you already have so much. You are fortunate to have friends who love you, family who support you, a job, a roof, groceries.
Appreciating what you have, even when you do not have a lot, will change you for the better. Here are some of the biggest benefits of gratitude:
12 Benefits Of Gratitude That Will Bring You Everlasting Happiness
I Hope You Find Someone Who Loves You At Your Very Worst
Enjoy!
It’s much easier to focus on the bad than the good, but negativity is not going to get you anywhere. However, there are unlimited benefits of gratitude.
It’s easy to see the worst in a situation. It’s easy to take your loved ones for granted. It’s easy to forget how good you have it.
Your life might not be perfect — but you should not spend all of your time complaining about what you do not have when you already have so much. You are fortunate to have friends who love you, family who support you, a job, a roof, groceries.
Appreciating what you have, even when you do not have a lot, will change you for the better. Here are some of the biggest benefits of gratitude:
12 Benefits Of Gratitude That Will Bring You Everlasting Happiness
I Hope You Find Someone Who Loves You At Your Very Worst
Enjoy!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Had almost frogotten about this thread - only 300 or so quotes but a lot went in here did-they-not ...
Quote-of-the-day
"A man of enlightenment, feeling one with existence, needs no morality, needs no ethics, needs no teachings about what is right and what is wrong. He is so in tune with existence that everything that happens through him is bound to be just right. There is no possibility of anything going wrong. Meditation is an art of bringing you closer to the heartbeat of existence. The deeper you go within you … you will find the very heartbeat of existence. Then there is no morality for you; all that you do is beautiful."
~ Osho
Cheers!
Quote-of-the-day
"A man of enlightenment, feeling one with existence, needs no morality, needs no ethics, needs no teachings about what is right and what is wrong. He is so in tune with existence that everything that happens through him is bound to be just right. There is no possibility of anything going wrong. Meditation is an art of bringing you closer to the heartbeat of existence. The deeper you go within you … you will find the very heartbeat of existence. Then there is no morality for you; all that you do is beautiful."
~ Osho
Cheers!
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
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Resident megalomaniac
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Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
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Add this to status quo thread? -
One of the problems in explaining enlightenment is that we have to use words. Words are only symbols and don’t give the real understanding. The letters of a word are merely a code that the mind translates into meaning. Words only have meaning if you already have an experiential knowledge of what the words mean. If you were blind could you understand color through just words? Can you describe music to someone using only words? Can you describe the emotion of love only using the symbols of words? Words are only effective at communicating experience if the experience is already known. You know color, music, and emotion because you have perceived them directly. Enlightenment is not an experience that one already has a reference for and so a word description is not likely to be meaningful enough to convey an understanding.
Enlightenment | What is enlightenment | How to become enlightened | Compassion | Laughter | Divine Comedy
One of the problems in explaining enlightenment is that we have to use words. Words are only symbols and don’t give the real understanding. The letters of a word are merely a code that the mind translates into meaning. Words only have meaning if you already have an experiential knowledge of what the words mean. If you were blind could you understand color through just words? Can you describe music to someone using only words? Can you describe the emotion of love only using the symbols of words? Words are only effective at communicating experience if the experience is already known. You know color, music, and emotion because you have perceived them directly. Enlightenment is not an experience that one already has a reference for and so a word description is not likely to be meaningful enough to convey an understanding.
Enlightenment | What is enlightenment | How to become enlightened | Compassion | Laughter | Divine Comedy
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Parenting & respect? - recent article from an email -
I see it all the time – parents lamenting the fact that their children are “disrespectful” or “don’t respect my rules” or “show no respect to their elders.”
I totally get how frustrating that is. All parents want their kids to be kind, polite and respectful to everyone they interact with. Obviously, it’s important children know how to act in a civilized society – but let’s be honest, we also feel incredibly guilty or embarrassed when OUR kids are disrespectful. We can just feel the judgment of other parents when our son or daughter snaps back at the cashier at Target.
So the big question remains, in a world where common courtesies come and go, how can we teach our kids to be respectful?! Both respectful to us and to other kids and adults? The answer is that WE have to model the respect we hope to see from our kids.
5 Ways to Show Respect for Your Child (And Gain Their Respect in Return) - Positive Parenting Solutions
I see it all the time – parents lamenting the fact that their children are “disrespectful” or “don’t respect my rules” or “show no respect to their elders.”
I totally get how frustrating that is. All parents want their kids to be kind, polite and respectful to everyone they interact with. Obviously, it’s important children know how to act in a civilized society – but let’s be honest, we also feel incredibly guilty or embarrassed when OUR kids are disrespectful. We can just feel the judgment of other parents when our son or daughter snaps back at the cashier at Target.
So the big question remains, in a world where common courtesies come and go, how can we teach our kids to be respectful?! Both respectful to us and to other kids and adults? The answer is that WE have to model the respect we hope to see from our kids.
5 Ways to Show Respect for Your Child (And Gain Their Respect in Return) - Positive Parenting Solutions