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Optimism

11/6/2013

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but  from hope to hope.
--Samuel Johnson

A truly powerful force in the universe is that  of optimism. Optimism lies at the root of our mental and physical health.  Feelings of hope can stimulate the body’s immune system and inspire recovery  from a critical illness.

Optimism expresses itself in the persistence and  resilience of living things. A child learning to walk repeatedly falls down and  picks himself up until he stands erect. A decade after the eruption of Mount St.  Helens destroyed the local ecology, life had reestablished itself on this  volcano with amazing abundance and rapidity. And despite its hostile  environment, a sole dandelion miraculously pushed itself up through a crack in  the concrete. That dandelion was optimistic that it could and would  survive.

In the long run, the forces of love and life always triumph over those of fear and death. No matter how 
challenging the obstacles or difficult the tests, there is always cause for optimism.

 
You are reading from the book:
Listening to Your Inner Voice by Douglas Bloch


 

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