Life in Abundance

By John on Apr 29, 2006 filed in Deep Thoughts, Family, Friends

Life in abundance comes only through great love. –Elbert Hubbard

I guess this is related to the 10th post in this series, but may be interpreted with some difference. It is when we have loved greatly that our life is abundant. What does that mean. To me it implies passion. Not just passion for another person, that special someone, although that may be part of it. But it also means a great love for life and all the people that are part of our life…a passion for life if you will.

Elbert Hubbard is also the person credited with first saying, “Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out of it alive.” A born salesman, Hubbard’s first full-time job was selling soap door-to-door. Later he joined the J.D. Larkin Company of Buffalo, one of the most successful mail order houses in the country. It was Hubbard who introduced premium merchandise as an added inducement to buy his company’s products. He also instituted the club plan which made every customer a potential salesman.

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Table of contents for Deep Thoughts

  1. Deep Thoughts: The Series
  2. The Advantages of Heaven and Hell
  3. An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  4. Emerson Explains Karma
  5. Choose The Way Of Life
  6. Honesty Pushes You Forward
  7. Make the Circumstances You Want
  8. The Great Opportunity Is Where You Are
  9. The Golden Opportunity Is In Yourself Alone
  10. The Cure For All The Ills And Wrongs
  11. Life in Abundance
  12. Imagination and Knowledge
  13. Power Is An End
  14. Wilderness
  15. The Immortal Flow of Energy
  16. The Price of Success
  17. A Drop In the Ocean
  18. Basic Decency and Goodness
  19. Respecting Nature
  20. Discovering The Limits of the Possible.
  21. We Must Sail
  22. The Journey Matters
  23. Never Haste to Day’s End
  24. A Heart Full of Grace
  25. The Mysterious, Source of All True Art and Science
  26. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity
  27. To Help
  28. Use it or lose it.
  29. Seek help first for a friend.
  30. Your Legacy?
  31. The Defeat of Night by Sunrise

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  1. I like that! I love to laugh and do it quite well~ :) She is such a cutie! Did she spill her jamba juice?

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