Contentment.

So there’s an auntie that emails me enlightening thoughts every day from different books. Thought i’d share this one as my first post.

There are two groups of people—–those who practice contentment, and those who do not.  Contentment is an experience that we can cultivate through practice.  Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  Like gratefulness and positivity, contentment is not usually handed to us as a gift, although it is always ours for the asking.  We need only to align our thoughts with appreciation, for contentment is not much a state of affairs as it is a state of mind.

If money could make us happy, millionaires would rest complete after their first million.  If power were the source of peace, heads of state would be the happiest people in the world.  But we all know that persons with much money, or power are not the happiest; in fact they are often among the most unhappy.  Why?  Because anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy.  Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled.  And finding is not something that happens to us——-it is something we do.  [Cohen,  The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore]