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Contentment- Goal, Trap and Nothing by Evan Palmer
2008-06-28 17:14:00 Does your contentment come from knowing what is most important in the sense of a profound enlightenment? Or, does it stem from being satisfied with what you know; feeling that it is enough and there is no valid reason to go further?Is it a physical contentment or psychological or a bit of both? Does it touch on the nature of the reality we find ourselves in? Is a contentment that rests on an unexplored reality certain to collapse. Even so, if its collapse was far enough in the future, most of us would take that guaranteed temporary happiness; our urge to defer as powerful as ever even when dealing with critical all-encompassing matters. Don't see it, don't hear it, don't know it. Small Picture winning over Big Picture almost every time.Isn't that a key mental conjuring - if it's not known, it's not perceived. Inklings may make mysterious intrusions on our psyche like clouds on a distant horizon yet they're easy to ignore or to dismiss. We tell ourselves, if it was important,...
What Is Contentment
2008-04-03 14:55:00 Father Richard Neuhaus talks about contentment, and inner serenity. What is contentment and inner peace. How do we keep ourselves in the proper disposition of this great spiritual grace. True faith brings about a sense of serenity even in times of stress. He ties serenity to the Eucharistic prayer, and draws upon Christ’s word in ...
By: Catholic Tube
Contentment Has No Place In The Blogosphere
2008-03-26 00:00:00 Well, are you contented of your blog? Are you satisfied with your blog traffic? Don’t you want to make more money from it? Don’t you want more subscribers or a higher Google page rank, or a higher Technorati or a higher Alexa? I bet your answer is YES! You GREEDY BLOGGER! When will you ever be contented of your traffic, or how much money you make from your blog? Will you ever be contented in the first place? You know, CONTENTMENT is a virtue. Being contented of what you have makes life better and happier…. Enough of this CRAP! I thought of starting today’s post with a different twist and hopefully get your attention. And if you are reading up until now, then it probably worked. Frankly, I’m never satisfied with what I have and with where my blog is at the moment. As soon as I reached my goal, another higher, more ambitious goal is on the way. And by the time my “more ambitious goal” is achieved, I’m pretty sure I’ll be aiming...
By: Blogging Mix
Silent Thoughts - Contentment and Happiness
2008-03-21 08:52:00 Other topics of similar interest ......Are you a Blogger? Heard of EntreCard yet? Interested in driving free genuine traffic to your blog using EntreCard? - Contest for Bloggers - The Largest Entrecard Giveaway (or, how to get 250+ extra visitors each day)The Chronicles of the Geek RiddlerLast day of Chinese New Year Break MondayTutorial : ...
Quote of the Day (6)
2008-03-10 00:20:00 Words of wisdom from a lengthy passage penned by the American Comedian George Carlin that I received via email: The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have… more ...
The key to happiness is contentment
2008-02-20 14:10:00 I’m beginning to think I can never be a happy person. When I had a great relationship with my boyfriend, I always found fault with him. When we broke up, I lamented my loveless state. When I had a great job going, I thought, “How nice to work out of city. Maybe somewhere like Britain ...
Contentment - christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-01-29 16:28:00 Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money. Unknown Author Aged 13If you cannot get what you like, why not try to like what you get?Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.... Spanish ProverbThe contented person is never poor-the discontented is never rich.I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.- Paul of Tarsus, Phil. 4:11-13Content thyself to be obscurely good.When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honour is a private station.-- Joseph AddisonThe contented person is never poor-the discontented is never rich.The quantum of wantum remains constant. ...
By: Christian Quoter
Acomplia Generic Name Rimonabant Creates Contentment and Leads To Weight Lo
2008-01-09 23:09:00 Saints live most difficult way of life in the world. Even after toughness in living conditions, they live a long life. What is the reason behind their longevity? The reason lies in their ascetic attitude which generates contentment. The health of the body is directly related with satisfaction. Anyone who is always satisfied and happy ...
Contentment vs. Complacency
2008-01-05 19:19:00 I was thinking the other day how I?ve changed. There was a time I use to be so anxious about finding a husband, that it pretty much consumed my daily life. However, now I have a strange feeling of "I really don?t care." I?m trying to determine after being alone for so many years whether I?m bordering on contentment or complacency. Being content means that you are satisfied with what you have and don?t need anything more to be happy. It?s a state you finally reach or finally learn to live in. You stop striving and being anxious for what you don?t have and learn the secret of contentment in what you do have. You?re at rest about your situation, and at peace in the stage of life you find yourself. In the long run learning to be content in whatever situation you live is the safest place to be. It brings peace, but also keeps the door open for a potential mate. You don?t close the door to the possibility of finding someone, but you have found some contentment while you?re waiting. You?ve...
What is Contentment?
2008-01-05 16:30:00 Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. This is a story that might change the way we look at life, and I would like to share it with eve5 Zoom(s)
Contentment
2007-11-29 00:27:00 Henry David Thoreau once said:"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
By: Lifeos Journey
Contentment
2007-11-28 15:26:00 Awaken (your consciousness), ye drunkards (intoxicated with desires), and weep (with remorse); and howl, all ye drinkers of wine (indulging in sensation), because of the new wine (of spiritual ecstasy); for it is cut off from your mouth (by your own actions)... - Joel 1:5 Love not (psychological) sleep, lest thou come to (spiritual) poverty; open thine eyes (of the consciousness), [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread (of wisdom: Gnosis). - Proverbs 20:13 O friend, till thou enter the garden of such mysteries, thou shalt never set lip to the undying wine of contentment. And shouldst thou taste of it, thou wilt shield thine eyes from all things else, and drink of the wine of contentment; and thou wilt loose thyself from all things else, and bind thyself to Him, and throw thy life down in His path, and cast thy soul away. However, there is no other in this region that thou need forget: "There was God and there was naught beside Him." [] For on this pl...
By: Baha i
Living Contentment: Giving Thanks
2007-11-23 00:00:00 Walking into the living room, I caught a few brief minutes of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer on the public television channel. He was lecturing from his book, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, in which he expounds the views of...
Balancing Desire with Contentment
2007-11-16 13:00:00 For instrumental music while reading, choose: hi-fi (broadband) or low-fi. It’s a fine line we walk between wanting more and feeling satisfied with what we have. Desire is unavoidable – it comes with the territory. Our experience helps us realize what we prefer and what we’d rather avoid. The natural result of this process is desire – desire for more of whatever we prefer. Perhaps our desire for more is the very same urge to expand and grow that’s in all life. The tiny acorn is wired to burst forth into a mighty oak tree. It doesn’t worry or care if this process is good, bad or indifferent – it’s just the way things are. Could this thing we feel called desire be the same force that keeps the entire universe growing, expanding and becoming more? We humans are unique (as far as we know) because we experience this irresistible urge for growth consciously. Other species grow, develop and change instinctually, but we do it deliberately, consciously, on...
Balancing Desire with Contentment
2007-11-16 13:00:00 For instrumental music while reading, choose: hi-fi (broadband) or low-fi. It’s a fine line we walk between wanting more and feeling satisfied with what we have. Desire is unavoidable ? it comes with the territory. Our experience helps us realize what we prefer and what we’d rather avoid. The natural result of this process is desire ...
Train Up A Child Thursday -- Contentment
2007-11-15 15:43:00 Train Up A Child Thursday is a meme dedicated to sharing biblical traits/ characteristics you are teaching your children. If you wish to participate then sign the Mister Linky and/or leave a comment so others can see what you are teaching your kids, too! To join the blogroll email me with Train Up A Child Blogroll in the subject line. The code for placing the blogroll on your page is: <script language="javascript"- type="text/javascript"-; src="http://rpc.blogrollin-g.com/display.php?r=783daa9e8b8-133fe750294593eac9b9d">-</script>................-...............................-...............................-...............................-...............................-...................Philippians- 4: 11-13 "Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hun...
Devotional: Contentment
2007-10-21 17:16:00 ?If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.? - 1 Timothy 6:8 One of the greatest struggles for a Christian in the consumerist American culture that we are a part of is to be content. You are daily bombarded on all sides by hundreds of advertisements telling you that you need this product ...
By: Trying to Follow
Secrets of Contentment
2007-10-19 18:06:00 Secrets of Contentment By John MacArthurThis is a continuing series.
10/5/07 - Life Journal - Humble Contentment
2007-10-05 20:40:00 When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"Esther 4:12-14Esther had been chosen from all the virgins of the territories to be the wife of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes). Not of choice but because of a random event brought about by a royal edict. She humbly submitted to her new circumstances and from this we can assume it was her faith in God that kept her content in her new surroundings. Not until the plans of Haman to eradicate the Jews of the kingdom was God's reasoning behind her elevated status to Queen revealed. Still humble to her authorities (the King) she was hesitant to approach him with her request to save "her" people. Her Un...
Knowing Divine Power is Secret of Contentment
2007-10-05 05:11:00 It is said that if you knew who it is that walks with you in every moment, you would never again have to be afraid. The only reason why we fear is because we think we are not being taken cared of. But the truth of the matter is, we are not alone in this ...
I Find Contentment in Friends of the Road (and laughter in bad jokes)
2007-09-19 13:04:00 I Find Contentment in Friends of the Road (and laughter in bad jokes)Meknes, MoroccoSeptember 18, 2007Homepage: http://canciondelvagabundo.goog-lepages.comNorth Africa page: http://canciondelvagabundo.goog-lepages.com/northafrica The GAME- A horrible, horrible Dutch game that, yes, is bound to confuse you.So after I dodged the lunatic and befriended Meikal, I ran back to the Youth Hostel so I could get in before they locked the gate at 10 PM. Once safe inside, I attempted to sit at a little table in the courtyard to do a little writing. But work was not to be done on this night, as a load of travellers began pouring in through the door just to sit down and disrupt my concentration by talking of all the glories of Fes (actually there was way more talk of hassles than glory). I did not mind at all, as real people tend to be a slightly more receptive to conversation than the screen of a computer. I also felt like talking. So I left the computer screen and joined in an odd game that a cou...
Story of Contentment
2007-08-04 10:25:00 Cineas was trying to stop Pyrrhus from attacking the Romans, and said, “Sir, when you have conquered them, what will you do next?” Pyrrhus replied,”I will conquer Sicily, as it is an easy target.“ “What will you do after Silcily is conquered?” asked Cineas. “Why, then, I will go on to Africa and take Carthage,” replied Pyrrhus enthusiastically. “After ...
By: Health Motivator
Positive Attitude Story, Happiness and Contentment by Napoleon Hill
2007-07-09 03:07:00 "It has been my observation that people are just about happy as they make up their minds to be"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Success Inspired
Gratitude Lessons- Contentment in Gratitude
2007-07-08 02:18:00 Here are some grateful thoughts from a thankful housewife and a man who has been robbed…... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Success Inspired
The Economics of Contentment
2007-06-22 11:43:00 - - Jan Grebski, a 65-year-old Pole recently suddenly and inexplicably emerged from a 19-year-long coma. Mr. Grebski fell into his coma after being hit by a train in 1988, the year before the fall of Communist rule. Recently he told Polish television that “when I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar ...
Perpetual discontentment
2007-05-15 03:26:00 Loneliness and discontentment are inherent to being human. It?s ordinary for people to want their lives to have significance and to feel that their existence has a reason and purpose. As self-conscious beings, we recognize, unlike other animals, that our lives are temporal, that one day we will die. The internal ache for meaning resounds, its echo reaching us when all is silent and we?re in our most unguarded moments. A common method of dealing with this is to drown out the empty purposelessness with activity and busyness.Our modern society offers many avenues to quiet the sounds of one?s inner unrest, with scores of music and iPods to play it on, social networking, and cozy coffee shops with light jazz or indie tempering the atmosphere. Some people can?t handle the silence of being alone. The television is always on and their cell phone in hand. Anything to keep their mind occupied. What is it that?s so frightening?It seems that despite the fear of ultimate meaninglessness the tend...
Realize contentment
2007-03-16 11:14:00 Success is defined by feelings of contentment. This arises when you aren't comparing who has more or less than you. Being yourself and accepting all that you are brings you a sense of success. What makes you believe a sense of success must have a cause to evolve from an external place? True success may come when you feel deeply grounded in yourself, when you're not searching for consolation or hoping to do what you have not yet done. Drop comparisons. To see yourself as neither higher nor lower, in terms of where you are, this is success. You can become intuitive and sense life offers more possibilities than your senses have the capacity to realize.Success is more than a state of mind. Rather than think about what you must do to understand and achieve, why not experience success without thinking about it? You can be happy without a cause. Attract and create the fee...
Contentment: God Will Provide
2007-02-09 16:40:08 -By Thomas E. Brewton Where socialism fails, the Judeo-Christian tradition succeeds. Sunday's sermon at the Long Ridge Congregational Church (a non-UCC congregation in North Stamford, Connecticut) was preached by the Reverend Jason Pankow. His principal text was 1 Timothy 6:3-10. If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound ...
By: Publius Forum
Contentment
2006-11-14 03:21:02 The feeling has overwhelmed me today, and for no particular reason. Perhaps it is my clean house, my fresh outlook, my new medication, my unconventional attitude or who knows. It started over the weekend and has progressed. Last night I marveled at the full moon as if I had never seen one before. It has sunk in and taken hold and colored my outlook in shiny hues of not quite happiness, but mostly just merely contentment. I like it. |
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