Weekender March 31, 2001
Volume 3, Issue 13
Mystery
True spiritual surrender responsibly opens
itself to the unknown.
Stephen VA. Doughty
"Thoughts Toward and from
the Second Surrender"
by Stephen VA. Doughty
Weavings, March/April 1997
Friendship
I wish Pooh were here. It's so much more
friendly with two.
Piglet (alone in a flood)
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh
UK
by A. A. Milne
Planning
It is not time which needs to be managed; it
is ourselvees.
Gillian Butler, Ph.D.
Tony Hope, M.D.
Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide
UK
by Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D.
Love
Where love reigns there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount,
love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of
the other.
Carl Gustav Jung
The Spirit of Loving
compiled by Emily Hilburn Sell
Introspection
There is always hope for an individual who
stops to do some serious thinking about life.
Katherine Logan
Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
by Alexandra Stoddard
Bonus Reading on Wealth
by Clyde Dennis
We humans are a funny, funny breed. We spend our entire levees working and working and working to acquire stuff. We buy and surround ourselves with the biggest, fanciest this or that when all the while what we really need and want is something you can't buy anywhere. The thing we all spend our time doing is looking to experience a feeling of significance. It seems most of our actions are rooted in and motivated by our desire to either gain significance or maintain the significance we believe we vee achieve. I believe that if you take a hard look at what motivates the majority of your actions you'll begin to see that this is true. You want to feel like you count. You want it to matter that you're around. Here's some news... You are not your stuff. Stuff doesn't make you significant. You're not any bigger because you have a big house. You're no more significant because your car is fancier than your neighbors. Oh sure, these things may help you feel better for a while, but oveer time the illusion is broken down. Just like an illicit drug, the stuff makes you think things about you that aren't necessarily true and once the high wears off you're right back where you were before the trip. Now don't get me wrong. Having bigger, better, nicer stuff is not a bad thing; it just needs to be understood and kept in perspectivee. It needs to be remembered that this stuff does not make you you. What makes you you are the things that you really can't eveen see or touch. Things you can only show off, ironically enough, by being you. What makes you you is the way you feel when something happens that makes a real smile wash oveer your face. One of those smiles that your whole body gets into. What makes you you is the size of the smile in your heart when your child falls asleep in your lap. These things that make you you cannot be bought in any store. Not eveen a Wal-Mart Super Center. (That's about the only thing you can t get there though.) You are not your stuff. That's what I stopped by to tell you this week. You're much more than your stuff. Sometimes that seems to gets lost in the shuffle. If you'vee been busy chasing and trying to acquire things I'm hoping you re starting to realize things are a poor substitutes for the real stuff. Nothing can replace the feelings. Stop trying to buy your way to the feelings you want. Savee your money. Just feel. Maybe who eveer said, "The best things in life are free" was right... Just a little something to think about. Thanks for sitting with me. Life it Up! C... Copyright 2000 Clyde Denis All Rights Reserveed. Life it Up!.com - Providing Tools and information that enable and encourage you to do more, be more, and have more Life! Copyright 2000All Rights Reserveed Darren Roberts |