How very wise! If we all only spoke when we truly had something meaningful to say and listened with complete attention to what others were saying...how would our relationship with others change?! And nothing is so simple yet so powerful as a smile. A war...
That sounds like what I need to do. Listen more, talk less, and try to stay positive. I have this tendency to be the truthful little kid in the Emperors New Clothes story.
What a wonderful experiment and observation! Today in the class that I teach, we were talking about who we admire most and I told the students that I most admired people who could teach peace by being peaceful. That is a most remarkable quality!
This is so true. We can never be happy when we are planning to be happy, scheming to be happy, or longing to be happy. The plans, the schemes, and the longing crowd out the possibility of happiness. Honestly when I stop trying to figure things out, as yo...
