To live well myself is my first and essential contribution to the well-being of all mankind and to the fulfillment of man's collective destiny. If I do not live happily myself how can I help anyone else to be happy, or free, or wise? Yet to seek happiness is not to live happily. Perhaps it is more true to say that one finds happiness by not seeking it. The wisdom that teaches us deliberately to restrain our desire for happiness enables us to discover that we are already happy without realizing the fact.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Image) 95.
Thought for the Day
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Image) 95.
Thought for the Day
To live well myself means for me to know and appreciate something of the secret, the mystery in myself...
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, 95
Contemplative Pause
Contemplative Pause
Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. How do you unconsciously create a happy life?
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