The Enlightened Spirit

“I asked God for all things, that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.”

- Author Unknown -

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, & Wisdom to know the difference.”

- Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr-

“Searching for peace & happiness, the mind runs from one object to another. Happiness is your own creation. If you expect something or someone to make you happy, then forget it. Achieving the objects of your desire will not make you happy. It may give you a momentary thrill or feeling of security, but you will soon be engulfed by a fear of loss. Happiness is a condition of mind that is created by your conviction that nothing in this world is worth enough to worry about. You have everything you need to be happy. Instead of focusing on the external, we should learn to cultivate & express inner beauty.”

- Himalayan Sage -

I awoke early, as I often did, just before sunrise to walk by the ocean’s edge and greet the new day. As I moved through the misty dawn, I focused on a faint, far away motion. I saw a youth, bending and reaching and flailing arms, dancing on the beach, no doubt in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin.

As I approached, I sadly realized that the youth was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to shift the debris left by the night’s tide, stopping now and then to pick up a starfish and then standing, to heave it back into the sea.

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