Etsy

An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Jealousy

What is it but simply an envy for something someone else has. Be it beauty, wealth, possessions, knowledge. You have something that I don't, and that makes me feel less whole.

By being envious what do I give myself? Grief. Self-hatred. I abuse my very being. Through the act and thought of jealousy I do not gain or achieve that which I am envious of. No. I just continue the cycle of wanting, desiring, hating and grieving.

So how does one move past such self-discriminating emotions? By loving oneself. So how does one begin to love oneself? By recognizing that I Am This. This is what I am. And to love all that I am.

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