Posted by quequel on March 02, 2003 at 14:42:21:
In Reply to: positive vibes are good... posted by thistle on March 01, 2003 at 10:32:16:
: Besides gaining a renewed appreciation for the natural world, I am learning that a positive attitude is really necessary to live a healthy and happy life. I am tired of being immersed in a negative world! I have the choice to think positive thoughts and to surround myself with others who choose to do likewise. I have become so cynical in some areas that I forget to enjoy the beautiful things. I am really going to work on living a life that is enhanced by positive vibes. I am going to choose to see the beauty in all that God has created, including earthlings :)
I agree with you about the positive. When I get tired of hearing myself complain, I watch Dharma and Greg. Somehow the thought of replacing my carpet with grass and dancing on the roof to celebrate spring makes me smile! Then I go outside and smell the exhaust and touch the snow and catch sight of a squirrel rushing to hide. Nature does something to me.
"The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him--life; it went out from him--truth. It came to him--short-lived actions; it went out from him--immortal thoughts. It came to him--business; it went from him--poetry. It was--dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. PRECISELY IN PROPORTION TO THE DEPTH OF MIND FROM WHICH IT ISSUED, so high does it soar, so long does it sing."
~~Emerson