Most people are so busy running around trying to arrange their lives to be somewhere else; anywhere but here would do. But learning to be grateful can free you from the hypnosis of a culture that's constantly looking for easy ways to make themselves feel better.
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When I started a new job selling door-to-door, it seemed like heaven. I was ecstatic from the first minute of the first day. Every house I walked up to, my heart sang and I said over and over to myself, "I am SO-O-O-O-O-O glad to be out here and not trapped in that cubical." Then, after a few weeks, something quietly changed.
beauty on your earth is a shadow of the beauty of our heaven, and itΒs a bitter thing to have a blindness for beauty on earth, for it makes a longer teaching to see the beauties of heaven.Β Spoken by an Irish spirit in the book The Boy who Saw True (anonymous author)
Happiness is something that so many people strive for each day and yet many times it eludes them. Often, they feel that happiness can be theirs if only their situations were different. Have you ever felt like that?
So often we get caught up in what I call the Βif onlyΒsΒ. If only my husband were nicer to me. If only I had a better job. If only the children were grown and out of the house. The list can go on and on.
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