When you're healthy, life has a thousand conundrums and problems to deal with. When you're sick, it has one.
We live in such a self created inner turmoil that inner peace is long since forgotten by the majority of humans. We seek happiness, but happiness isn't peace. Happiness is beautiful but temporary. Peace once found is ever lasting, even in the face of adversity.
Gratitude is our problem. We devour materiality, hoping for one more glimpse of happiness, but it's never there. Yet if at the first attainment true gratitude is found, peace will quickly follow.
We're all wired wrong. We're told to work, to pay someone else to raise our children. We're sold a dream that only wealth will keep us happy and safe.
Yet if I told you tomorrow you're receiving millions of dollars, and you're a human who has yet to attain such blessings in life, and I asked how you felt? I'm sure you'd say grateful, excited, astonished at the opportunities that lay before you.
Then, however, I add a catch. After you receive it, you will never see tomorrow's sunset, and your life would draw to an early close if you take the offer. Would you take it?
Most won't. This means that seeing tomorrow's sunset has more value to you than millions of dollars. Pursue your well-being, pursue your security, but never forget that the priceless parts of life are free each and every day as you do.
Why can't we see that? Unless we've been successfully enslaved to forget the true value of life, the true wonder of simply being.
As we leave a place we love, this becomes more noticeable. Everything seems a little more valuable. We take more time to absorb it, to be present with that place. As we know, tomorrow we won't be with it to give true thanks for it.
So give thanks. If you're reading this, you're in possession of something that is seemingly priceless, that is, the rarity of the experience of being the one-off human form you are
In love and presence all... be aware of the sacred life you are 🤍
John St Julien Baba Wanyama
When you're healthy, life has a thousand conundrums and problems to deal with. When you're sick, it has one.
We live in such a self created inner turmoil that inner peace is long since forgotten by the majority of humans. We seek happiness, but happiness isn't peace. Happiness is beautiful but temporary. Peace once found is ever lasting, even in the face of adversity.
Gratitude is our problem. We devour materiality, hoping for one more glimpse of happiness, but it's never there. Yet if at the first attainment true gratitude is found, peace will quickly follow.
We're all wired wrong. We're told to work, to pay someone else to raise our children. We're sold a dream that only wealth will keep us happy and safe.
Yet if I told you tomorrow you're receiving millions of dollars, and you're a human who has yet to attain such blessings in life, and I asked how you felt? I'm sure you'd say grateful, excited, astonished at the opportunities that lay before you.
Then, however, I add a catch. After you receive it, you will never see tomorrow's sunset, and your life would draw to an early close if you take the offer. Would you take it?
Most won't. This means that seeing tomorrow's sunset has more value to you than millions of dollars. Pursue your well-being, pursue your security, but never forget that the priceless parts of life are free each and every day as you do.
Why can't we see that? Unless we've been successfully enslaved to forget the true value of life, the true wonder of simply being.
As we leave a place we love, this becomes more noticeable. Everything seems a little more valuable. We take more time to absorb it, to be present with that place. As we know, tomorrow we won't be with it to give true thanks for it.
So give thanks. If you're reading this, you're in possession of something that is seemingly priceless, that is, the rarity of the experience of being the one-off human form you are
In love and presence all... be aware of the sacred life you are 🤍
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