A Grateful Heart

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Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.  Sarah Ban Breathnach

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and of giving thanks, continuously.  Because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.  The greatest blessings are within us and within our reach.  Seneca

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.  Eckhart Tolle

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness.  It is an expression of humility.  It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.  James E. Faust

Doing Nothing, Being Something

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The first two months after I left my job, I was really intense.  I tried to start my own law practice.  I went to seminars, classes, workshops, networking meetings and lunches.  I stayed busy.  At some point, something inside of me said “Stop! Do nothing.”  Doing nothing was foreign to me.  How could I not be productive?  I made myself follow my inner voice.  In doing nothing, I rediscovered myself, the self that I had willingly given away in exchange for a regular paycheck.

As I stopped all directed activity, as I grew more into my intuitive self, I began to read again, to listen to music again, to converse with people whose thoughts, beliefs, and opinions about the meanings of life didn’t revolve around working oneself to death for some unattainable happiness.  As some of us know, the treadmill to happiness never reaches its destination.  One must learn to be happiness – no matter what.  Robin Hart