Something To Think About and Journal Notes

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

  How we treat our land, how we build upon it, how we act toward our air and water, will in the long run tell what kind of people we really are.

                                                                                                           Laurence S. Rockefeller

Note:  We have Teton National Park because Laurence Rockefeller secured the purchase and gave it to the State of Wyoming for the benefit of all Americans.

 

  Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

                                                                                                           L. Wolfe Gilbert

                                                                                                                       

JOURNAL NOTES

   Emerson once said, “Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.”

   Very few of us are born with an enlightened mind.  Some discover their path early, most not.  There are others that live tormented lives because they know there is more than what has been taught, but are unable to find a new way.  I think it may be that they are looking in the wrong place.  Instead of looking out there somewhere, look back.  Look back to those that have questioned before, those that have had similar experiences, but in a different way in a different time.  For me this came through Stoicism, and for me this began in my thirties.  Until this time, I too had fallen into the trap of believing whatever I had been told.  When trouble strikes in life, as it will, we should not look upon it as an unwanted tragedy, but as an opportunity to delve deep inside ourselves and find what has been lying dormant inside our mind.  Allow the mind to be open and see if there is not space for expansion, for knowledge, for growth.  It is during this time that I found newness within me.  I did not find I needed to change as a person, which I have, but I didn’t need to eradicate the good in me, I just needed to stop stifling the parts that wanted to be free, to expand and find a better way than what had been there; I needed to grow.  Today, I am happy with the person I have grown into, but I cultivate the knowledge that I must always retain an open mind.  There are more experiences to have and more knowledge to be acquired.  As my daily internal mantra; What kind of person do I want to be today, and what do I need to do to attain it?