Hi ,
How are things with you?
This week, I'm sharing a favourite coaching exercise with you: "What Makes My Heart Sing?" (link below). It reminded me that Helen Keller said:
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
I believe as a society that we place too much importance on being rational and logical - and not nearly enough on feelings and the 'heart'.
Happiness is not something we can acquire with facts and logic. Like its more intense cousin joy, happiness arises when we slow down and are still enough, when we're thankful, relaxed and spacious enough:
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne
Of course it's much easier (and less scary) to nail down facts and accumulate knowledge than it is to look within ourselves...
Anyway. This week, I hope you'll try this easy, fun and super-inspiring exercise to be happier:
PS. If you like thoughtful quotes, here's one to wrap up with:
"[The heart] is the primary organ of man's being, whether physical or spiritual; it is the centre of life, the determining principle of all our activities and aspirations. As such, the heart obviously includes the affections and emotions, but it also includes much else besides: it embraces in effect everything that goes to comprise what we call a
"person". Hieromonk Kallistos
