A necessary daily reminder...by Lush?!

in #life7 years ago

I came to appreciate Lush a lot lately. It's not easy to find anything Lush products here but when I do I really like to get some stuff.

Here's what it came in the box with a product. It strike me as a very good message to read and re-read and remember because it is so easy to forget.

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This is an idea that I'm trying to embrace beyond words, at DNA level. A message that must become part of who I am and manifest itself in all that I do.
But it is hard because people suck. I suck too at times. It's hard to carry on, for fear of being taken for a fool. Still, isn't this real courage then?

Remind me of another quote that is dear to me:

You need to learn to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life … work on the mind.
— Elizabeth Gilbert

But the thing is that again, this is not something we are trained to do and no one really talks about that in school. The mind-training is almost 100% ignored in schools and ultimately, in most cases, it comes down to this. What do you think, how do you think and what is your way of dealing with things. Now, a beautiful mind is elusive though a beautiful attitude is instantly apparent. However, there are two different things...

In my experience, people who are a certain way are that way a lot by nature then by exercise and habit. A desire to change and be more is necessary if somehow you haven't reached to these conclusions by yourself. As many things I tend to observe lately, there's a lot of hogwash until it isn't.

Gratitude, kindness, love, love yourself, smile, give, be present. Words. words.words.

Until they become more: a way of life.

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live long life .......... very nice sir

Outstanding post and narrative. Thank you for sharing!

Interesting post I have a phrase that I end my posts with which goes like this: “Design and create your ideal life, Don’t live it by default.”

The last few words of your post struck a chord with me. I like the words Be present as many people chose not to be [Present in the moments if their life I mean]

Nice post. Nice message. Thanks.

I like them.

They also do detailed investigative work on their sources. Check out [this Quartz article](Lush Cosmetics ethically sources its ingredients using internal sleuths — Quartz

https://qz.com/se/perfect-company-2/1144934/the-dangerous-daring-work-of-producing-ethical-soap/) detailing their efforts to maintain an ethical supply chain.

Thanks for the article!

Cheers,

@dcj

I try to be grateful at least once a day.

twice a day starting tomorrow?!?!

I thank God every time my car starts.

I'll tell you what school has taught us: mindless competition, getting ahead no matter on how many corpses you step on, some are more equal than others, obedience is key to success and other stupid crap that I don't even want to discuss.
Schools should be the place where you grow, instead they are the place where we shrink our horizons and becomes disgusted with the pressure of fitting in. School rant over :)...for now

" getting ahead no matter on how many corpses you step on" man, we went to different schools man!! :))
But yeah, the romanian "educational" system is focused on the wrong things...

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The message was not by Lush, it was at the sender request I assume ;) But still I believe is in line with their philosophy. Smell nice, be nice. Hugs

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