The Life That We Want

Sometimes it's helpful to ask, "Am I living the life that I really want?" If the answer is "no" then it's obvious that we might need to start doing some things differently, so that we can "live the life that we really want."

I am fond of thinking and saying that so-called "good lives, good relationships, good experiences don't usually happen by accident." We have to apply ourselves to them. If we give of ourselves without reserve, this can help us to "live the life we really want." And even if the situation doesn't work out the way we may have intended, we can at least know that we made the effort. When asked about all of the so-called "failures" in making the light bulb, Thomas Edison replied, "I've never failed, I just learned nine hundred ways not to make a light bulb."

George Carlin died yesterday of heart failure, at the age of 71. Tim Russert died a week or so ago, at the age of 58. I wonder if they lived the life that they really wanted? We won't ever *really* know. In what moment will I die? I won't really know that. But I do understand that I am day by day learning to live the life that I really want. It just takes "Right-Effort" on my part, to live the life that I *really* want.

Namaste'

Jaye Morris, Curator
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