About 18 years ago, Ashrita discovered spiritual contentment with help from Sri Chinmoy, who started out in Bangladesh but now also lives in Queens.
Luke Barnes is a young Englishman who travels to Paris to write a novel, only to hook up with a beautiful Serbian student and another couple, and to discover how contentment can curdle into inertia and failure.
midway between Hanalea and Waimea Canyons: $19 a night double". The owners of this B&B; were a couple of ex-Mainland educators, Evie Warner and Al Davis, who'd run off to Hawaii to discover their contentment.
She is also the author of "INVITING A MONKEY TO TEA: Befriending Your Mind and Discovering Lasting Contentment" (Hohm Press, 2012) and "GETTING OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: Unlocking Your True Performance Potential" (Luminous Press, 2001).
Nick Demos, 44, a theater producer and director who has a sideline as a yoga teacher, only recently discovered the transcendental contentment of shoe box living.
We, too, were lonely and frustrated, but through W-Anon we discover that no situation is hopeless and that it's possible to find contentment and future happiness now that the worst president in American history has finally left office.
In that non-resistance, they find contentment.
In time, Etheridge married again, a relationship that strengthened as the years passed, his contentment in it similar to the contentment he had discovered in marriage before.
I discovered that the house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy.
Despite his supposed contentment, Sam was still obviously troubled by Tracy's reaction to him after he discovered that his actions had inadvertently led to her parents' deaths.
Maybe Costa Rican contentment has something to do with the chance to explore dazzling beaches on both sides of the country, when one isn't admiring the sloths in the jungle (sloths truly are slothful, I discovered; they are the tortoises of the trees).
