Well Healed

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. - Thoreau

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there is both poverty and wealth in truth

and untold riches and glory in the ability to accept and live out to the fullest with dignity whichever it chooses to bestow ...

Author's Note

"Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I was almost disappointed yesterday to find thirty dollars in my desk which I did not know that I possessed, though now I should be sorry to lose it." - Thoreau

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This complex statement is not super easy to grasp & assimilate into my feeble non-philosophical mind. But it strikes me as the basis for many lessons I'm learning as I study a text on Buddhism practice. I catch a hint here that it's only our likes & dislikes (judgment) that lead us to define various states as being "wealth" or "poverty". Since you use "healed" instead of "heeled" in the title, I take it that "wealth" & "poverty" are not put forth as measurements of one's physical possessions (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Pete]

this is sort of my take on life and something i'm learning (the hard way). good and bad is gonna come our way, sometimes not a whole lot we can do about it but if we choose to stay positive and live the best that we can it doesn't matter, we'll get through. if we value the "right" things in life, they can never be taken away from us (namely faith, love). thoreau knew this well and wrote about it extensively ... :)

[Pete]

oh, and my favorite nature but man is more and more messing with that one too. thank goodness for music, no one or nothing can stop me from listening ... :)