"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life." -- Buddha
To complete this week's string of "becoming thankful" posts, I will offer some ancient eastern wisdom that helps me stay grounded, thankful, and on the right "path." To me, being thankful is made easier by clearly seeing and appreciating the value of what we already have and coming to the realization that what we have is "enough."
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." -- Lau-tzu
"There is more happiness in doing one's own [path] without excellence than in doing another's [path] well." -- The Bhagavad Gita
"You cannot tread the Path before you become the Path yourself." -- Zen saying
"All human beings, though they may seem to be walking on divergent paths, are all marching to one goal, and that goal is Self-realization." -- The Bhagavad Gita
"If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it." -- Lau-tzu
"Slow down and the thing you are chasing will come around and catch you." -- Zen saying
"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." -- Thich Nhat Hanh
"When the way comes to an end, then change -- having changed, you pass through." -- I Ching
"If you choose a job that you like you will never have to work a day in your
life." -- Confucius
"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world." -- Zhuang Tzi
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." -- Buddha
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall." -- Confucius
"My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it." -- Chuang Tzu
TFPAuthor, Kent N. Thune, QPFC, is the President and founder of Atlantic Capital Investments, LLC (ACI), a 'fee-only' Registered Investment Advisory firm located in Mount Pleasant, SC.
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