October 14
Contentment happens when our emotions give place to common things that in other times can draw little attention. It is releasing a deep inner peace that heals sadness and lifts a sagging spirit.
Contentment is a intensely personal thing, adjusting to different people in its most effective way. It rides a shaft of sunlight to pool on the gray bark of a tree, or it rises from laughter, deep and kind. It is nearly always unexpected and settles as softly as a bird lights on a limb.
It is a remarkable fact that we simplylet contentment happen. Socrates called it a natural wealth, but most have called it a miracle.
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle.
CHIEF STANDING BEAR
SIOUX
1800's