If what most people take for granted were really true--if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now.... What a strange thing! In filling myself, I had emptied myself. In grasping things, I had lost everything. In devouring pleasures and joys, I had found distress and anguish and fear.
hmmmmm, this is delightful! I have been thinking lately, how I busy myself filling my life with "experiences", as if this is the key to happiness and fulfillment. I am not an unhappy person...far from it...But often something is missing. Activities and experiences become items "checked off a list" rather than lived. Hopefully I can catch myself and slow down before I drive myself to distress and fear.
I agree, it's (whatever it happens to be at a given time) is enough.
My comment should read -- ... is never enough.
This Wisdom bespeaks the Lives of many SAINTS - they are the sparks about the stubble that highlight the Secret "To Be Happy"!
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