6.26.23

Every Monday, I’ll be sending out “Meditation Mondays” – short emails with thoughts and quotes that are inspiring me.

The goal of each Mediation Monday is to share these ideas with you in the hopes that you’ll find some inspiration in them as well. Take what resonates with you and leave the rest behind.

Thought

The practice of gratitude can shift our perspective in life and open up our worldview:

When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn't get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don't get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying 'You're too this, or I'm too this.' That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.

— Ram Dass

Quote

Novelist Marcel Proust on gratitude:

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Moment of Gratitude

I’m grateful for you, taking time to read this and to contemplate these ideas with me.

What are you grateful for?

Happy Monday,

Val