Well...My
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I knew owners who'd arrive from their London homes in Porsche cars to ride their fine horses once a blue moon. Why these people talk so much to the groom I'll never know but they did - almost without exception. I learned that all the things they had didn't bring them peace, I learned our pleasure in the ride was at best equal but I never owned my mount, often I enjoyed the ride more though. If I would follow success it wouldn't be them, it would be the old boy who worked in the yard mucking out each moring. He was in his 70's, once a tenent farmer until the farm was lost, he cared for his mother and missed out on marriage, spent years as a field hand for the army remount. Yet he could walk in with the most difficult horses and they soon learned to find treats in his big pockets! the horses would play with his hair and lick his jumper soggy wet!! He had his own peace.
Carol, if I live long enough to achieve the success you have I'll be grateful. I think success is to live as we believe and be the person we want to be.
It's damn true - you ARE an inspiration!
Carol, if I live long enough to achieve the success you have I'll be grateful. I think success is to live as we believe and be the person we want to be.
It's damn true - you ARE an inspiration!
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: brooklyn, new york
Posts: 1,639
Perception I think it’s all about perception and action.
so true
imagine if all that happened while you were drinking
where would you have been?
and, also
"PERSISTENCE"
don't drink and go to meetings
no matter what
best
fraankie
so true
imagine if all that happened while you were drinking
where would you have been?
and, also
"PERSISTENCE"
don't drink and go to meetings
no matter what
best
fraankie
On a tear
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Volcano Country!
Posts: 3,221
Every time I get through a tragedy, I gain strength - if from nothing else, then from the knowledge that I could survive "that".
Over yime, it is logical that I will walk through more and more tragedy. How grateful I am that by the time the water is very deep... I have finally learned how to swim.
If I had known what lay ahead 25 years ago, I too might have said, "No. That is too much. It isn't fair. I can't do it." Thankfully, I don't have the curse of prescience. And even more thankfully, I am fully present, fully aware and able to apply what I've learned about life and about myself to this day's bounty - good and bad.
Carol - your post is incredible, and speaks strongly for living life on life's terms - not just enduring it. Thank you for sharing this.
Over yime, it is logical that I will walk through more and more tragedy. How grateful I am that by the time the water is very deep... I have finally learned how to swim.
If I had known what lay ahead 25 years ago, I too might have said, "No. That is too much. It isn't fair. I can't do it." Thankfully, I don't have the curse of prescience. And even more thankfully, I am fully present, fully aware and able to apply what I've learned about life and about myself to this day's bounty - good and bad.
Carol - your post is incredible, and speaks strongly for living life on life's terms - not just enduring it. Thank you for sharing this.
Still learning; ever grateful
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: VA
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Wow, Carol (sniff...) To repeat what has been said - you are truly an inspiration. You are wise, strong and steadfast beyond words.
I hope you are blessed in many ways.
Big, huge, hugs to you,
I hope you are blessed in many ways.
Big, huge, hugs to you,
body ~ mind ~ spirit
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Geelong, Australia
Posts: 582
Carol that was lovely, and you sound like there are many, many things in your life to be thankful for.
A very close friend and fellow A was telling me a story about her childhood, they were poor. She was relating how one day she was visiting and the people had honey, well she had never had honey in her life, they couldn't afford it. Her perception of the event was "What would they have thought of me? I just hoed into the honey, it was so hard not to." But really ... what a lovely memory of how delicious honey is.
Perception .... early missionaries felt sorry and pity for people who lived a natural life in their home environments, their perceptions of what people should live like led to the missionaries destroying a valid way of life.
As equus said, those who are rich and have material possessions are not always happy and those who do not have riches are not always sad. Inner peace comes from valuing what you have and we all have something to be grateful for so everyone has the potential for inner peace.
Thanks CarolD!
lots of love,
Brigid
A very close friend and fellow A was telling me a story about her childhood, they were poor. She was relating how one day she was visiting and the people had honey, well she had never had honey in her life, they couldn't afford it. Her perception of the event was "What would they have thought of me? I just hoed into the honey, it was so hard not to." But really ... what a lovely memory of how delicious honey is.
Perception .... early missionaries felt sorry and pity for people who lived a natural life in their home environments, their perceptions of what people should live like led to the missionaries destroying a valid way of life.
As equus said, those who are rich and have material possessions are not always happy and those who do not have riches are not always sad. Inner peace comes from valuing what you have and we all have something to be grateful for so everyone has the potential for inner peace.
Thanks CarolD!
lots of love,
Brigid
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