Inspiration Thursday: Quiet

Driving home today in the ice and snow, I was thinking about how little quiet time we have. All I kept thinking about while driving was how wonderful it would be to be home, in front of a fire with a book or my knitting just thinking. Do we spend much time just thinking in this age of rush rush and technology? Our gadgets allowing us to do everything in a hurry, and we want more even faster!! I mean good contemplation. Sitting by a pond watching the frogs jump, walking for an hour without an iPod, having a cup of tea and just gazing out the window?

Thinking nourishes us. It allows us to relax and reboot. A good tranquil think helps ideas appear. Memories come into view, imagination becomes vivid, and some good hard thinking can encourage solutions. Did you know that Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity while thinking? Thinking encourages us to work out problems, come up with new innovations instead of depending on electronic hardware to give us answers, tell us what to laugh at, do next and assist us in becoming mesmerized with vapidity.

Spend some good quality time thinking, you may get inspired. As Aretha Franklin sang, “You better think (think) think about what you’re trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free.”

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