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Dabblers and Divers
Happy, happy
day of thanks. Make sure you take the time to list the things you are thankful
for. Keep this list in a desk drawer or place where you will see it often enough
to remind yourself of your gratitude.
Okay, now to
the lesson, lesson. Yesterday my friend and brother Jerry sent a link to a PBS video
called An Original Duckumentary. He knew that it was right up my alley. It was
about the secret lives of the ducks we see every day, but give little attention to.
(Watch and Enjoy)
I sat
transfixed as I watched the ways of ducks. One of the things that stood out—and
believe me, for a nerd like me there were many, was the different ways ducks find
their food; some skim the surface of a pond or lake for all of the goodies that
float to the top, while some tip their bodies over, and with hind parts in the
air they search a little deeper for their food. These ducks are dabblers. Then
there are the divers. Diver ducks use the little lung capacity they have to
dive under the surface going all the way to the bottom to retrieve the most nutritional
foods.
I went to
sleep dreaming of diving deep to find the good stuff.
This morning
I awoke with time to read. I opened Buddha’s Brain; The Practical Neuroscience of
Happiness, Love and Wisdom and read this:
It’s a remarkable fact
that the people who have gone the very deepest into the mind—the sages and
saints of every religious tradition—all say essentially the same thing: your
fundamental nature is pure, conscious, peaceful, radiant, loving and wise and
it is joined in mysterious ways with the ultimate underpinnings of reality by
whatever name we give That. Although your true nature may be hidden momentarily
by stress and worry, anger and unfulfilled longings, it still continues to
exist. (Hanson, Mendius, 2009) (Read more about the book)
The question for you today is this;
are you a surface seeker, a dabbler or a diver? How far will you go to find
your true self? The deeper you forge the more peaceful and loving the
experience.
Be you, be well, be thankful.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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