Why is life mostly, seemingly, pretty mundane?
@innertalks (22476)
Australia
March 13, 2025 7:37pm CST
The smaller details of our life are as important as the larger details are.
We need to be alert to all of the minor details of our lives, at all times, at home, at work, and even in temporary situations, like when on vacation too.
We should never relax, nor let our guard down, but always love all, in the minutest of ways, as well as in the fullest of ways too.
Whenever we disregard paying enough attention to the small details of a mundane life, we should increase our loving of life, so that even the mundane, and the everyday small duties, and happenings, of our life, are seen in the light of God's love too.
Only love can shine a new light on the mundane, and elevate it to a higher status in our lives.
Mundaneness meets love, when love reveals its profoundness to it, turning the mundane into acts of love too.
The basics of living do not have to be gone through as boring, mundane acts, of mindlessness.
Reaching past the mundaneness of life into the exemplary nature of God's love requires you to soar in that love energy in being your real self for God, and not just be your pseudo self, your mere earthly shell.
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
Quotes from, Mother Teresa, (1910 to 1997) a missionary, and Catholic nun.
So, enjoy the little things in your life.
The everyday mundane, seemingly inconsequential, happenings, try to notice, and appreciate them, just a little bit more.
One day, somewhere in our future, we are sure to look back over our lives, and only then, will we realize, that they were the things, that were really masquerading, as the big things.
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Pay attention to the little things too.
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@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
14 Mar
That is really something to be able to say we have enjoyed every minute of our life.
I could not say that myself, but looking back over my life, I do see that some of the bad times, did serve me, in their own way too.
@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
14 Mar
@Danielclark691 Sometimes, I have found life is how others make it for you, and then about how you react to their making of it for you.
For example, my nephew wanted to be a Policeman, but they would not accept him, so he went to another state here with less stringent rules, and he got in there, but it meant travelling, and uprooting himself, from his hometown.
Others made it hard for him, but he still found a way, although not perfect. He is a Policeman now.
@lilacskies (6893)
• United States
14 Mar
I pay attention to the little things too. I'd rather life be mundane than dramatic.
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@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
14 Mar
I think most of us don't want too much drama in our lives.
We want a smooth journey, without too many bumps to the ride.
We need to learn something from everything, though, so we can learn from mundane events, too. and if drama comes, we should try to see the life lessons in that for us too
@lilacskies (6893)
• United States
14 Mar
@innertalks That is true. You can learn things from anything. You are right.
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@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
14 Mar
I agree.
Each part of our life should be looked at as important to us, as they do help to grow us into who we can be, when we see the life lesson of love, embedded in each life experience, when we look for it as being there.
We should keep growing wiser, and more aware, the longer we live.
@Shiva49 (27013)
• Singapore
14 Mar
What we consider as little things can take us down if we ignore them.
As long as we live here, we need to attend to material things for daily survival.
Our body is demanding (jealous mistress) as we need to nourish it with care.
Ironically, some tend to give more to outward appearances than what goes into their mouths!
We need to elevate the little things and deal them with equal attention. Same applies to what some consider as little people.
Love is scarce in the world but we have endless supply inside us It becomes an opportunity lost, a sad epitaph when we kick the bucket as a species.
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@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
14 Mar
"The French-men haue a military prouerbe; 'The losse of a nayle, the losse of an army'. The want of a nayle looseth the shooe, the losse of shooe troubles the horse, the horse indangereth the rider, the rider breaking his ranke molests the company, so farre as to hazard the whole Army". (1629 Thomas Adams (clergyman), "The Works of Thomas Adams: The Sum of His Sermons, Meditations, And Other Divine And Moral Discourses", p. 714")[9][11]
Yes, when something is noticed as going wrong, we should try to fix the problem, as early as we can.
Everything builds on from everything else, and so when the little things are in their rightful place, the bigger things then more readily fall into their rightful place too.
We should never let an opportunity slip us by, if we can help it, as it is usually love that brings an opportunity to us, giving us the chance to learn something worthwhile for us, from our taking that up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail
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@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
15 Mar
@Shiva49 Yes, a moment of carelessness can lead to a life of regret. Somebody diving off a cliff into water, without checking if there were submerged rocks there first, is a good example of this.
It is said that World War one started when the other side heard the first shot, so then retaliated, as each side was waiting for the first hostility to start, but it was not an attacking shot, but one of the soldiers killing a snake in the field, next to them.
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@Shiva49 (27013)
• Singapore
15 Mar
@innertalks No amount of attention to details is too much when it comes to endangering human lives.
It is especially so with airplanes or spacecrafts. Other lives are on the line even when a nail is missing.
And to think nuclear wars can happen at the press of a button! And those responsible should be those who have no itchy fingers!
A wrong move can start a chain reaction like a black mamba injecting venom multiple times - even one bite is enough to kill an elephant!
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@innertalks (22476)
• Australia
14 Mar
Yes, it makes for less waves in your life, and things are more routine for one too.
