“He who is contented is rich” ~ Lao Tzu
Being deeply grateful for what you have is the key to happiness. It is believed by people who practice awareness that there are unlimited things for us to be grateful for. Gratefulness comes more easily with humility and having respect for others but with minimal or no expectations. It is important to remember that we need to focus on the good we have and not on what we don’t have.
In spiritual retreats and programs we are asked to list five or ten reasons every night for which we ought to be grateful and in just a few days beautiful changes start taking place – we feel more at peace and our anxiety levels reduce. It is also amazing that the reasons for which we need to be grateful also keep increasing more and more.
Lets welcome gratitude and contentment in our thoughts and actions and be happy. What more do we need? 🙂
Cheers friends and have a lovely weekend 🙂
Breath of Joy 
The richness of heart is the key to happiness, not exterior accumulation of possessions and money. Your article rings truth.
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Welcome Richard to my Blog. Yes what you say is the real essence of the post.
I am honoured to meet you. Thanks.
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Honoured to meet you to Dilip Naidu 🙂
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Thank you. Dilip.
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These are powerful words that can and should stir emotions deep in our being. Thank you for sharing them with me. Take care, Bill
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Thanks Bill for stopping by. Many good wishes your way!
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A wonderful reminder. Thank you for posting this. 🙂
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Thank you for appreciating and for stopping by! Be joyful 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap and commented:
This is one of those things I needed to see. And want to share. So beautifully simple. So helpful. A big cyber hug to all my cyber friends.
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Bravo to this post. The message sustains me through most everything. To be alive offers so many incredible miracles. Your site was suggested to me because we share cyber friends in common. Really glad I stopped by and too the time to look around and found this. ❤ Paulette
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Hi Paulette its gracious of you say such encouraging words. Its good to note you liked some of my posts and
I look forward to reciprocate your visit. With kind regards 🙂
Dilip
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❤ Just reblogged this. In this time of so much suffering, so much turmoil, so much pain, this is a simple beautiful answer that can help. Gratitude is a very powerful antidote to suffering. ❤
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The re-blog is indeed an honor and humbling too. Antidote is the right word and when we recount all our mercies at night before drifting into sleep we awaken deeply refreshed.
Thank you
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I love this post and i agree when you say”Enjoy every second is a precious gift” That’s good and true. C’est une juste et belle façon d’envisager la vie 🙂
Merci de transmettre cette belle philosophie
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Merci d’avoir apprécié! Cordialement. I love French language and feel sorry I can’t speak or write it. Thanks for stopping by. Best wishes always.
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I sometimes need to remind myself of that but it’s so true. Lovely words again
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For people like you Freya who are into challenging sports such as trekking on tough terrain and enjoying Gods own natural beauty it may not be applicable 🙂 For other mundane folk yes its true.
Thank you and regards.
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What a beautiful quote and message! It is so true.
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I am so glad you liked the message. I love to draw inspiration from quotes of wise people and improve myself.
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
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I’ve always thought that to stop wanting is to stop living. But what you say makes sense too. Perhaps there is a way to reconcile the two concepts. Anyway, great post!
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Thanks Krish I agree with you on ‘to stop wanting’ is utopian. And yes reconciliation is workable we can stop short of greed zone.
Many thanks for stopping by. Regards.
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That is a meaningful words. We can be contented that we are healthy and surrounded by our loving people. Not easy for some people though, as it is human’s nature to want more. I ever heard this quote, too: He who is able to give (sincerely) is rich. So, it is not about the amount of your money. Beautiful post, Dilip!
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Many many thanks Indah for your kind response. I agree with you it is not easy at all for most of us. And yes “Giving without strings attached” is a beautiful way to reach a state of contentment.
Wish you the best of health and happiness always. Cheers 🙂
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We fail to recognize the gift of contentment until we no longer have it. You are wise to remind us.
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What you say is true. We tend to forget what we have but make ourselves unhappy wanting more than what we need.
Thank you and wish you well.
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How true you words are, Dilip! We have so much to be grateful for, when there are so many who don’t have some of the things we take for granted and they are still grateful and happy. Then who are we to not count our blessings? Thank you for writing this – it is something that we all should print out and put next to our bed or on our refrigerator, and look at every day.
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Welcome Davinder and many thanks for your lovely comments. Your words “Then who are we to not count our blessings”? ring so true. I know because I need to take special care to remind myself to count my blessings.
With kind regards
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I guess it is easier said than done. 🙂
What helps is to keep trying. Remind yourself of all the simple but great things in your life. If you forget, remind yourself again.
I am learning that struggling to get better at such peace inducing habits is better than doing nothing at all.
I am grateful for the little things that I always take for-granted. I am grateful that I drove to work this morning and arrived safely.
Thank you Dilip for reminding me. 🙂
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It is so kind of you Atuhairwe for such lovely comments. You are right it’s not ease we need to make a firm commitment to practice it progressively.
Of course the reminder very much applies to me too.
Thank you and kind regards 🙂
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It is in human nature that contentment comes and goes quickly. We don’t want to get stuck-ed doing and having the same things. Contentment with having to be grateful, not envious, and find satisfaction and not ask too much. It goes hand and hand with inner happiness.
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That’s a beautiful response Rommel. Yes what you say n contentment is perfectly true. Have a good day and best regards 🙂
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Gratitude is so important. It helps us center ourselves and really make the most of the world around us. Thank-you for this much-needed post!
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Beautiful and uplifting response. True gratitude makes us calm and peaceful.
Thank you so much and regards.
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Highly inspiring words Dilip! Keep posting such energetic thoughts… Let the optimism spread 🙂
Regards,
Sindhu
Tantu
The Arts & Me
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Many thanks Sindhu kind of you. Regards and cheers 🙂
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You are so right Dilip. Counting our blessings is the key to happiness. Thank you for your timely reminders 🙂
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Thank you Madhu yes we must count our blessings always. Kind regards 🙂
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Beautiful post. Thank you for sharing!
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You are very welcome. Best regards 🙂
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Thank you sir for the beautiful article on gratitude and it gives us more reasons to be happy and lively living in the moment with ease and comfort and appreciation of life.
Regards,
Girish kohli
With profound regards,
Girish kohli
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Girish my dear friend I am delighted to see you here. I am glad you liked the post.
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Thank you sir for the wonderful insights for being grateful as I am experiencing continuously the immense benifits of writing daily the gratitude journal.
With profound regards,
Girish kohli
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Subhanallah
Beautiful words and meaningful
indeed true that gratitude with what we have to make our hearts a sense of calm and away from anxiety
Sign of peace is always
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Shukriya Janab!
Thank you so much dear friend for your beautiful comments. Yes sign of peace is always!
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How very true Dilip! Thanks for the very important thoughtM
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Nice of you. Have a lovely day Tina. 🙂
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Very inspirational post!
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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Beautiful message ! At any given time, we have so much to be grateful for.
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Thank you Renu that’s very kind of you. Kind regards.
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The more we have, the more we take for granted, and it seems the more we want. What we really need are the basic things in life, and we are not usually grateful for them, though we should be.
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Oh yes dear Binky lets remind ourselves and practice it. Thank you and be very well.
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Oh yesss…. absolutely true! And every second we have there is the chance for our karma to do something great for someone else 🙂
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Oh that’s a beautiful thought Claudine. Grazie mille!
Kind regards. 🙂
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A most wonderful post Dilip, and what more indeed do we want? other than to find Peace within .. Once we achieve this state of being, is amazing how our outer world starts to reflect back that which we feel..
I often think Dilip if only we could get the whole world to sit for half an hour at the same time and fill themselves up with this peace…. How different a world we could then experience!…
I am so very grateful for my own little haven of peace and so thankful of that Peace I have… All I can do is send my own peaceful thoughts out to those troubled spots around our globe, and pray they too may look within their own turbulent hearts and one day hope they too will find the peace they seek, without destroying the Peace through War..
Blessings and have a wonderful week Dilip..
Sue
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Thank you Sue for such kind and meaningful thoughts. What you say is exactly what ‘being grateful’ is. Even to imagine the awesome peace that will prevail if the entire world sends out positive vibrations together it would surely be ‘heaven on earth’.
And yes like you even I wish to sit in quiet for a few minutes each day and send out good wishes for all. And that itself give us considerable peace of mind.
As an ex-army man I do strongly endorse your sentiments on world peace through friendly relations and and economic cooperation.
I cherish your blessings Sue.
Dilip
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Dilip, thank you. _/\_ here’s to our inner prayers and moments of reflective thoughts we send to all.. 🙂
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Oh yes this is so beautiful and yes I join you Sue _/\_ with feeling of surrender!
Kind of you and be blessed! 🙂
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So true! A wonderful reminder to appreciate what we have.
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Indeed it is a reminder for all of us. Kind regards.
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So true. If we start being grateful for things that we have starting with just one every day, we will definitely get rid of our anxieties and insecurities. No need for spiritual retreats, gurus and programs. Self-realization!
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True very true! Thank you so much.
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Lovely 🙂 Like I always said, The key to our happiness lies in our own hand. Be happy, keep less expectation, learn the art of forgive, keep no grudges and respect yourself.
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Lovely words which ring true. Yes lets just do it. 🙂
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Dilip, this is a wonderful post. I do love the “sketches in stillnes cartoons” too. Gratitude is one of the best things to make your life fuller and richer. Many preople do forget abou thte most simple things in life nad to be grateful for these. Thank you for this wonderful reminder!
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That’s kind of you Ute I consider myself fortunate to have good friends like you. I am indeed grateful. Regards.
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Aww thanks Dilip! 🙂
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🙂
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Reblogged this on God and Love and commented:
“What more do I want?” Dear Dilip, This is a great idea! Contentment! “Man minus desires equals God.” Actually, if one thinks about it, our requirements are very few to live. If only we can restrict to essentials, we would be much happier, won’t we?
Love and Blessings. Surinder
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Thank you dear sir for your gracious words and the ‘reblog’! An honor indeed.
“Man minus desires equals God” is true and must be kept foremost in our minds.
Kindest regards.
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Once one is able to distinguish wants and needs, then they can identify and appreciate thanks.
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Spot on. Its our needs that need to be fulfilled. Wants can tuned for the general good. 🙂
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Hello Sir,
What do we want more…. really a deep thinking lies beneath. Sometimes we may feel stalled or that nothing is quite clicking, but that’s when it’s important to practice gratitude for things like breathing.
“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.” ~Brother David Steindl-Rast
Regards
Supriya
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Dear Supriya reading your thoughtful response fills me with immense pride. I am sure you would get many opportunities to practice your spiritual philosophy in your HR world and nothing can be more satisfying.
Oh I love the quote by Brother David Steindl-Rast and would surely like to use it at an opportune moment.
Be blessed.
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Contentment and happiness somehow go hand in hand…the people who not only know this but follow this have true wisdom…really need of the hour article…good stuff Dilip
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Firstly welcome to my space Chaitali! What you say is so true it is not knowing and appreciating but practicing it that works wonders. I am fortunate to have a mentor who we have watched actually doing this from deep within her heart. And we all do get inspired to follow.
Kind regards and thanks.
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Amen to that and letss. Yes..
Life will be beautiful if we are able to do it..
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And yes Amen to that. Yes Bikram lets try and we surely will. Cheers 🙂
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Life itself is a gift..the joy of being alive with sound senses… 🙂 nice one Dilip…
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Oh yes Maniparna life is surely a divine gift for us to make use of our senses with wisdom. Thank you for you nice words.
Cheers 🙂
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What a wonderful reminder that I have everything and I am grateful about it.
Thanks for this inspirational post Dilip!
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Hi Charu it’s so nice to hear from you. I was touched by the words in the image and what I wrote was from my heart. Thank you too and best wishes to you for providing relief to your patients.
Cheers 🙂
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Worrying about what we don’t have only makes us feel miserable. We fail to notice all the good things around us until one day all we are left with is …expectations. Gratitude indeed, my dear Dilip. Thank you and a beautiful weekend to you. 🙂
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Dear Marina I am blessed to have a friend in you who has been a source of encouragement and kindness all along in my blogging journey.
I am truly grateful. Cheers 🙂
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So am I, my dear Dilip! 🙂
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Merci beaucoup dear Marina 🙂
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I couldn’t agree more. Gratitude increases our zest and love for life and for God. Blessings.
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Hello Seeker thank you for your blessings coming from you means a lot to me. Kind regards.
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So beautiful and just what I needed to hear right now, bless!!!
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Lets all be grateful for the wonders of every moment in complete awareness. Cheers and regards.
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Needed this so much now..
Feelings like I have lost everything, haunt me..
But yes gratitude as you say, will heal me…
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needed this so much now- exactly my words too at reading this! thanks dilip for this!
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Thank you dear Amit we all are in the same boat! Be blessed dear friend. Cheers 🙂
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Yes Pamela gratitude can provide solace and succor! GM
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