Savour: A Way To Enrich Your Life

Quotes

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.” ~Zen proverb

“Neuroscience can now demonstrate the brain indeed has a negative bias; the brain prefers to constellate around fearful, negative, or problematic situations. In fact, when a loving, positive, or unproblematic thing comes your way, you have to savor it consciously for at least fifteen seconds before it can harbor and store itself in your “implicit memory;” otherwise it doesn’t stick. We must indeed savor the good in order to significantly change our regular attitudes and moods. And we need to strictly monitor all the 'Velcro' negative thoughts." - Richard Rohr [1]

“I arise in the 

morning torn between 

a desire to improve

(or save) the world 

and a desire to 

enjoy (or savor) the 

world. This makes 

it hard to plan the day.” 

~ E.B. White - Author of "Charlotte's Web"

Matthew 6:25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 

May your life be enriched as you take time to savor.

~ Rod

Footnotes

[1] https://cac.org/turning-toward-the-good-2016-02-18/

1st  photo credit (wine and chocolate) -  Unsplash

2nd Photo (geese) - Rod Janz

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