Do you think Einstein was a Buddhist??
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein quote (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
It's no secret that children think that money grows on trees. We live in a world that bombards them with marketing messages to make them want this or that. I remember my foster daughter thinking (mistakenly) that if you paid a lot of money for something, then it was good and valuable. Silly girl!
The Money Savvy Kids(TM) curriculum can teach second and third graders about spending, saving and investing. Part of the curriculum uses the Money Savvy Pig which has four slots - one for saving, one for spending, one for investing, and one for donating. The most important progress for them was for them to recognize an increased willingness to forgo immediate gratification. Something even us adults have trouble with. LOL.
This week I was practicing falling and getting up with my physical therapist. After exploring several methods of how to get myself up and how to ask for help in getting up, I really got in touch with the possibility that first of all, I could fall and secondly, that if I did, it probably wouldn't be a gentle tuck and roll. I can't really bend my knees and I can't roll on my right hip so my main option would be to try to break the fall with my arms- my precious arms that I need to hold me up on crutches.
As if we projected it, the next day we are going to the movies and it is pouring down raining and there I go- falling. The crutch tip slipped and before I could hit the ground, my husband caught me. Lucky me.
I guess I won't be going out in the rain much anymore.
Never liked the stuff anyway- except from behind a window.
"Know that you have suffered only for this: that you may bless those who suffer still."
-Hayden Trevino