Contentment

 

 

 
Ordinary World
 
 

 

 


All miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

-- Blaise Pascal

 

 


Awareness

 
When we are alone, what's the first thing we do? Do we turn on the radio, call a friend, invite someone over, make plans to go out, or turn on the television?
Mystic
 How easy is it for us to be in silence for a period of time?
 
Perhaps we grew up in homes filled with confusion and yelling and everyone talking at once. Silence may be uncomfortable for us.

 Perhaps we prefer to fill our rooms with noise so we don't feel alone.

Whatever method we choose to drown out the sounds of silence, we are also drowning out another sound -- the inner self.

How can we possibly think, read, meditate, or write in a journal with noise bombarding us?

 To learn to sit comfortably alone in silence, we need to try it in small steps.

We can start with five minutes, then ten, then fifteen, then a half-hour.

 By gently easing ourselves into quiet moments, we will allow our inner selves the time and space in which to grow.
 
 

 

 

 

Radiant Beauty
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

I will love you no matter what. I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being -- I will love you no matter.


-- Leo Buscaglia

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Contemplation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wouldn't it be nice if there were just one person in our lives who loved us no matter what our faults?
 And wouldn't it be equally nice if we, too, could love just one person in the same way?

Faithful 
Love is not an easy emotion for us to feel. In the past we may have associated feelings of love with negative feelings such as pain, hurt, rejection, or disappointment.

 But we can put the negative feelings aside and learn how to feel love as a positive emotion.

Love does not necessarily mean sexual attraction or commitment. Love can simply be seeing someone for who he or she is, whether that person is a friend, co-worker, boss, family member, or lover.

To show love, we can keep our actions simple -- by making a phone call, writing a letter, or sharing a hug. Let's show someone we care.
 
 

 

 
 

Dreaming

 

 

 

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.


-- Lisa Alther

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Time To Relax
 
 
 
 
 
 
If we think right now about people we admire and respect, we'll usually find that their enviable qualities involve a certain degree of strength.
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So we admire these people, wishing we, too, could be as strong as they are.
 
  Yet each of us have inner strength. This strength defines us as we are and makes us different.

 We cannot share the same amount of strength in all areas of our life -- mental, physical, and spiritual -- because we are all different.

 Let us think back over the events of today and find our inner strengths.

 We may work well with people; we may be a good employee or student. As we look around our homes, we may find further clues -- handiwork, a tasty meal, flourishing plants, a set of weights, a shelf full of books, a completed crossword puzzle.

 If we spend less time envying another's strengths and look instead to ourselves, we will have more time and energy to develop our own inner strengths.
 
 
 
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 Copyright © 2024 Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. All rights reserved. from the book Night Light

 
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Ordinary World

Music by: Duran Duran
Written by:  John Nigel Taylor / Nick Rhodes / Simon Le Bon / Warren Cuccurullo
Lyrics Copyright © Concord Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc

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Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio
Still, I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is the life that I recognize?

(Gone away)
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence
Once prompted you to say
"Pride will tear us both apart"
Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?
Crazy, some'd say
Where is my friend when I need you most?

(Gone away)
But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ah-ah
Oh, yeah, oh

Papers in the roadside
Tell of suffering and greed
Fear today, forgot tomorrow
Ooh, here besides the news
Of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Every world
Is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world
Is my world (I will learn to survive)
Any world
Is my world
Every world
Is my world