Welcome to the Quote of the Week!!!
Learning to accept Uncertainty is this week's theme and a Letter to the Editor is the source of the Quote of the Week. The letter was a response to Daniel Gilbert's May 20th NY Times column, What You Don’t Know Makes You Nervous (See Link Below).
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To the Editor:
As Daniel Gilbert reminds us, uncertainty is unnerving. Unfortunately, however, uncertainty is a persistent reality of this world.
How then are we ever to relax and enjoy life?
Happily, some ancients answered that question. Establish ourselves, they say, in what does not change, what is always certain. Be centered on one’s essential, unchanging nature. In different words, live in the world, without being of the world.
And how can we ever learn do that? Engage in proper meditation, say the ancients. And as a longtime meditation teacher, I have lots of evidence they were right.
In short, it would be silly to try to eliminate uncertainty, either from economics or any other aspect of this world. That’s not in the cards. Our aim rather should be to find a healthy way to live with it. That we can do.
Merrill Harmin
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Link to the Daniel Gilbert Column...
http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/what-you-dont-know-makes-you-nervous/?scp=4&sq=gilbert&st=Search
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
“Nothing will happen to me which is not conformable to the nature of the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
1 comment:
Good advice. One thing is for certain, worrying doesn't change a thing!
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