What leads to boredom? Inactivity. But activity does not exist for the purpose of our escaping boredom; rather boredom exists so that we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life.*
Viktor Frankl

Who will give you the authority to feel what
you notice is important?
It will have to be you.**
Verlyn Klinkenborg

Gratitude serves as a bridge to the transcendent, connecting us to something beyond ourselves. At the heart of the human impulse to seek meaning lies gratitude. And at the heart of gratitude lies the sense of meaning…do you want to change how you see yourself and the world? Cultivate the practice of expressing gratitude.^
AleXander McManus

Here lies
a transcending pathway
in three quotes–^^

We begin with boredom–
We notice some things–
We take a good, long look–

We value what is being revealed–
Changing before our eyes–
We change too–

We find our way
from boredom to transcendence
through gratitude–

Beyond “some have gratitude
and others do not,”
We’re discovering–

Some will
develop gratitude
whilst others will not–

*Viktor Frankl’s The Doctor And The Soul;
**Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several sentences about writing;
^AleXander McManus’ FutureU;
^^The quotes just happened to come together in my journal for today.

SOME RANDOM THIN|SILENCE
THIN|SILENCE FROM A YEAR AGO