What Do I Really Need?
Today’s post from the Kindness Handbook, by Sharon Salzberg:
“What do I really need right now, in this moment, to be happy? The world offers us many answers to that question: You need a new car and a new house and a new relationship and… But do we really?
“What do I lack right now? Does anything need to change in order for me to be happy? What do I really need?
“….As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life–delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay–I hold this question as a guiding light: ‘What do I really need right now to be happy?’
“What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection, and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.”
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(photo by Jenifer Altman, from For the Love of Light, published by Chronicle Books