Living life is happiness

“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.” — W. Beran Wolfe, Austrian psychiatrist and author


Non Doing is as important as Doing

“Non-doing doesn’t have to be threatening to people who feel they always have to get things done. They might get even more done and done better by practicing non-doing… Enormous effort can be involved but it is graceful, knowledgeable, effortless effort, a “doerless doing” cultivated over a lifetime…..” Jon Kabat-Zinn

via Pip Coburn who shared this in an email. As we head into the weekend, something to remember!


Words To Live By….

“Successes only last for so long till someone screws them up. Failures last forever” — Dr. Gregory House in the opening episode of Season 6 of House MD. I guess, if you think about it – the fear of failure is one of the reasons why we try not to take chances on new things and aim for new successes.