March 13, 2024 – A

I'm thinking what we are looking for
is peace and contentment,
a sense of satisfaction 
with our life,
and a "happy to be here, now" orintation
throughout each day,
being comfortable with our surroundings
and with our prospects,
and at one with ourselves
and the time and place of our living.

And I'm thinking we are never more
than a perspective shift
away from being at home 
in that kind of place.

"This is the way things are,
and this is what we can do about it,
and that's that."

What's keeping us 
from being okay
with that realization?

If we can't do anything more
than what we are doing
to make things as good as they can be,
what's the point of stewing about it?

This is as good as things can be!
Why not make our peace with it?
Why make it worse by hating it?
makes it better or worse.

We only have to change our mind
about our relationship with how things are
for things to be as good as they can be.
And, that's as good as things can be!
Fuming about it makes it worse.

How we think/feel about how things are
when nothing we can do will improve them,
determines how things are.

Changing our mind about how things are
always improves them.

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