Comments on: Finding Balance http://allthingsholdtogether.com/blog/2007/06/27/finding-balance/ A blog about cooking, crafting, and making soap. Thu, 03 May 2012 01:07:29 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dana http://allthingsholdtogether.com/blog/2007/06/27/finding-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Dana Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:40:00 +0000 http://allthingsholdtogether.com/blog/2007/06/27/finding-balance/#comment-168 Thanks for your thoughts, Charity. The thought of a "perfect balance" brings up some interesting questions. Some of it has to do with the natural discontented state many of us drift into, no matter what we pursue. There is only one pursuit which really can meet our desires and needs. But somehow we desire that plus...whatever seems flashy at the moment.<br/><br/>Anna-Marie brought up contentment, which I thought interesting. The word originally meant something more like "hold" and alluded to restraint, not satisfaction. That meaning came along later as it was seen as a virtue to restrain one's desires to what one had...to be content.<br/><br/>It isn't so much a state of being as it is an active choice. Thanks for your thoughts, Charity. The thought of a “perfect balance” brings up some interesting questions. Some of it has to do with the natural discontented state many of us drift into, no matter what we pursue. There is only one pursuit which really can meet our desires and needs. But somehow we desire that plus…whatever seems flashy at the moment.

Anna-Marie brought up contentment, which I thought interesting. The word originally meant something more like “hold” and alluded to restraint, not satisfaction. That meaning came along later as it was seen as a virtue to restrain one’s desires to what one had…to be content.

It isn’t so much a state of being as it is an active choice.

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