A friend sent this to me:
Inner Peace
If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without alcohol,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,Then You Are Probably the Family Dog!
Do you think that’s a good description of inner peace? Do you think it’s missing something? Do you even care about inner peace? I seldom think about it. I’m more interested in being happy — when I focus on that the above just happens naturally. What about you?
February 9, 2014
Ah, to lead a dog’s life. At least the kind of life that our Chutki leads. I will exchange it for any human life any time.
I thought that about our cat. 🙂
Until she couldn’t run up a tree fast enough & got eaten by a coyote. 🙁
I wouldn’t trade. I seem to be doing quite well. 🙂
bikehikebabe,
😀
i’ve always loved that and am so glad to see it again. thank you!
what a great reminder.
to us humans!!! 😀
Dogs a great reminder to enjoy life and not take ourselves too seriously. 🙂
It probably does describe inner peace.
Although people then want to extend the term. You get the same debate about happiness – ‘it is not just absence of pain” etc.
I tend to use other words – that aren’t so common and hopefully carry a bit less baggage – joy, engagement, elated-calmness and so on.
I agree, I think in more positive terms, not just the absence of things we don’t like.
The family dog is boring and he’s (she) is not balanced…to have inner peace, you must have a kind of attitude. Not the one found in poems or books, but the one you create for yourself.
Of course, sometimes that inner peace is disturbed and an argument occurs, to do yes or no or stay in the “it depends mode” – then hopefully you find a way forward. Not necessarily back because “back went when the inner peace was disturbed. Was it for good or bad…or did it just
“depend…”
Most of the dogs I know aren’t that boring. For instance, I’m pretty sure Angus has dogs to stir things up a bit.
Who would have thought it? I am a dog. Or at least a half breed.
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