Genuinely enjoy

Genuinely enjoy
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There is more to enjoying life than just collecting objects
or experiences that will impress others. The most sublime
enjoyment is enjoyment for its own sake.

Are you constantly concerned with what advantage you'll gain
from life's experiences? Then you'll end up with a lot of
advantages but not any real enjoyment.

Pleasure can be nice; yet pleasure does not equal enjoyment,
and the pursuit of mere pleasure can end up enslaving you
because pleasure chains you to some specific object or
condition. If pleasure is your primary objective, as time
goes by you'll need more and more of it but enjoy it less
and less.

There is just as much enjoyment to be found in the small,
simple, subtle things as in the big, noisy impressive
things. Let go of the need to impress or to pile pleasure on
top of pleasure, and allow yourself to genuinely enjoy.

You can find enjoyment in just about anything, with no
conditions, prerequisites or limitations. Even in the midst
of extreme difficulty, the possibility for real enjoyment is
always present.

Choose to genuinely enjoy this day, with all its ups and
downs and challenges and surprises. You'll find that
enjoyment strengthens all that you do.

Ralph Marston