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November 6, 2014 By W. Lee Baker

Fun Will Bring You Peaceful Living

Go Have Some Fun-and Peaceful Living Begins

Go for the amusement ride.

Go for the amusement ride Photo © W. Lee Baker

If you have been wanting some peaceful living conditions amidst some turmoil, why not do something silly or playful  just for fun? There is always that voice over your shoulder giving excuses for why not to have fun. If you are one of the people on this earth that never has had a restraining negative voice inside, that is a different condition. Most of us have that judge sitting on our shoulder, telling us why something is wrong, bad, or won’t work if we really did try for joyful, peaceful living.  A very limiting condition, for sure.

Step outside of the box to create peaceful living

How many times have you thought about something enjoyable, creative, or constructive just to immediately come up with multiple reasons not to follow through? The blessing of being able to create a new idea that may contribute to  peaceful living is that it is a huge step to liberation from the tyranny of “the judge”.  We always have to choose with some wisdom what to do and what not to do. Running on a railroad crossing just in front of an oncoming train just for the thrill may not be a good idea of such fun. They can be the ideas that draw us into the fondly imagined future.

Creative playful ideas create peaceful living conditions immediately!

So many ideas for joyful, peaceful living are immediately edited and thrown in the trashcan in our minds without any really good reason. Do you realize how many times a day you generate new thoughts? Do you know where they come from? They are made up inside your own little thought generator, that brain thingy.
There is evidence that a thought is not really a fact, yet we act upon those randomly generated thoughts as if they were truth. So the next time you imagine (create) a nice idea for fun or creative leisure that will directly benefit you by creating peaceful living conditions, don’t stomp on it quite so directly. Let it live long enough to say “Oh, that sounds good, let’s try that this time.” Trying an amusement park as a fun outing, even if you are not a kid anymore. It can refresh the spirit in a playful adventure like a kid again.
Trust me, everyone needs to remember how to have fun like a kid again. Go for the ride.

Website Locations Where Fun Abounds

You Tube. Yes, the wacky videos

The Onion, Making up only funny news.

The Best of Craigslist

 

 

 

Filed Under: Creativity, Noticing in everyday life

MEDITATIONS

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction.

Dalai Lama

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night: to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day. And everybody’s beautiful in their own way. Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find the way. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens - 1939

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it’s silence, it’s beauty, it’s humility. Stay aligned to that.

Stuart Wilde ~ 1946

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FROM W LEE BAKER

I am a testimonial to waking up from the deep sleep buried in clouds of doubt. I wandered lost until I found my way into this life, and I am ever thankful and reverent of the mistakes and losses along the way. Now I hope to offer inspiration to others who find this story.

– W Lee Baker

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