In keeping with my Helen Keller theme of recent, and because my house is cluttered and when my house is cluttered my mind is cluttered, which leaves me incapable of composing anything meaningful, I leave you with the following quote by Helen Keller for you to contemplate:
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Happiness
My FB friend, Christine, quoted Helen Keller as her facebook status today, which sent me in search of more Helen Keller quotes. Keller had a lot of good things to say.
The quote on Christine's status today is "No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it."
Like gratitude, happiness needs cultivation. I picture a little garden of happiness flowers. Flowers themselves are a short lived part of the plant cycle. Necessary for the production of fruit and reproduction of plants, but short lived themselves. Bees spread their pollen and similarly, when one person creates a happiness, other happinesses can be pollinated. Yet, happiness is fleeting. Happiness might lead to satisfaction, gratitude, peace, comfort, or other emotions, but happiness itself is fleeting, hence our desire to consume it. Yet to consume without producing is selfish. It's very similar to cutting fresh flowers. Although pear blossoms are beautiful, they need to stay on the tree. To cut them and enjoy them indoors takes away the tree's ability to produce fruit. Fruit is much more sustaining than blossoms. Pollen in a house isn't healthy. It makes you sneeze.
I'm going to focus on producing more happiness, won't you join me? What have you done to produce happiness today?
The quote on Christine's status today is "No one has the right to consume happiness without producing it."
Like gratitude, happiness needs cultivation. I picture a little garden of happiness flowers. Flowers themselves are a short lived part of the plant cycle. Necessary for the production of fruit and reproduction of plants, but short lived themselves. Bees spread their pollen and similarly, when one person creates a happiness, other happinesses can be pollinated. Yet, happiness is fleeting. Happiness might lead to satisfaction, gratitude, peace, comfort, or other emotions, but happiness itself is fleeting, hence our desire to consume it. Yet to consume without producing is selfish. It's very similar to cutting fresh flowers. Although pear blossoms are beautiful, they need to stay on the tree. To cut them and enjoy them indoors takes away the tree's ability to produce fruit. Fruit is much more sustaining than blossoms. Pollen in a house isn't healthy. It makes you sneeze.
I'm going to focus on producing more happiness, won't you join me? What have you done to produce happiness today?
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