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Comment on Toss Me Back by atiqahsk

atiqahsk — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:10:30 +0000

Comment on Impervious Ocean by atiqahsk

atiqahsk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:38:42 +0000

favourite.

Comment on Mandy’s Honesty by atiqahsk

atiqahsk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:22:02 +0000

Agreed. A little criticism can do one good. Depends on the individual really- whether to use it to improve and develop oneself or to be all sore and inferior about it.

Comment on Binding Wish by atiqahsk

atiqahsk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:18:24 +0000

I love the way you write (: Especially, love the last paragraph. Wish I had stumbled upon here sooner. ):

Comment on Smile by GRUMBLE AND STUMBLE « Ronny Siagian

GRUMBLE AND STUMBLE « Ronny Siagian — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:11:43 +0000

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Comment on Danger Ahead by glandheim

glandheim — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:53:59 +0000

Kind of reminds me of the statement that “Expectations will ruin your serenity.”

Expect nothing. Assume nothing. Prepare for anything. Live for the moment.

No, no. That reads like I’m saying your poem is trite. It isn’t. It captures a really simple, yet profound, truth, very neatly and concisely.

Thank you.

( And I have a good idea how I became so silly:) )

Comment on Smile by inevitablenuances

inevitablenuances — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:19:30 +0000

Comment on The Mirage by glandheim

glandheim — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:20:16 +0000

It’s a sad sentiment, well expressed. I’ve done it, more than once: Thrown away something I treasured because I was afraid of the pain of losing it.

It’s a perverse logic.

Comment on Battle Against Barriers by glandheim

glandheim — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:42:15 +0000

I know what you mean. For a long time it seemed the only person who left comments on my blog was Diana (Called to Fish). There were days when I really didn’t feel like writing that knowing there was just one person who liked what I was doing kept me going.

Comment on Smile by glandheim

glandheim — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 05:50:05 +0000

Strange that I should read this post today.

This morning I listened to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR. It’s a repeat, but she was interviewing Darrin M. McMahon, author of “Happiness: A History.” It was really a history of the concept of happiness in Western Civilization over the past 2500 years or so. He said it was such a monumental task that he declined to examine the history of happiness in other cultures.

Starting with Aristotle, happiness was associated with virtue, and did not come automatically, was assumed to be difficult to achieve, and few could do it.

But the intersection with the ideas in your essay with the ideas behind happiness was serendipitous.

But you are right. The act of smiling actually creates a sense of well being. If you don’t feel good, and you smile, you will tend to feel better. This has been pretty well established under laboratory conditions.

When I studied Insight Meditation, one of the last things to pay attention to when getting comfortably seated, was to just let the ghost of a smile curl your lips, like you see on most statues of the Buddha. One of those Mona Lisa smiles, like you know something that other people don’t.

And it makes a difference in the meditation. You feel better, right off, if you remember to keep that little curl of a smile going.

So simple.