Monday, July 16, 2007

What else do you want?

Special Hello to the Great Dr. Gilbert

Do you have a hard time walking by a jewelry store without looking in the window or going inside and looking for what else you want? Are your dresser draws overflowed, with no closet space at all and still have the need to go shopping to look for what else you want? Be honest. Don't you feel happy when you go shopping? How about buying yourself that piece of jewelry that "you must have."

We seem to drool over things and get ourselves all hyped up for something that may be satisfying for now until that excitement wears off. If we could just attain that excitement throughout our ownership of it, then why do we have to have more than what we need. Take a look at everything that you had to have. If you still have it, do you feel the same way about it? Your thoughts become your feelings and your feelings become your habits. Your habits become your character.

Our habits may have become our false needs.
Whatever you feed, you will think you need.

"We fail to acknowledge and appreciate what we have, because we are so concerned with what we want." ~John Wooden

Quote of the month: "A winner is a dreamer who just won't quit."

1 comment:

Lisa Sargese said...

That's why the Buddha said that desire leads to suffering. Desire for finite things, like jewelry, are not satisfying. Only infinite things, divine things can truly satisfy.