We either make ourselves happy or miserable.
The amount of work is the same
Carlos Castaneda
an inside job
Author: Karl Duffy
This is a Mindfulness Practice Blog written in Laois, Ireland, containing reflections on meditation practice, psychological growth, spirituality and wellness which hopefully may encourage and benefit others as they reflect on their lives and seek to develop a more balanced, mindful and conscious approach to it.
Practice contentment
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more.
Your desire can never be satisfied.
But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself “Oh Yes, I already have everything I need”
The Dalai Lama
Solid in unsettling times
Let our meditation be like the earth,
for then satisfying and unsatisfying contacts with the world through the senses
will not invade the mind.
The Buddha
This earth belongs to everyone
You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his.
You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone.
The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.
[Non de tuo largiris pauperi sed de suo reddis. Quod enim commune est in omnium usum datum, tu solus usurpas. Omnium est terra, non divitum.]
Saint Ambrose, c. 339 – 397, De Nabuthae 12, 53
The Christmas rush
Our minds are like crows.
They pick up everything that glitters,
no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them
Thomas Merton
Sunday Quote: living fully
Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books every day.
The person that puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.
Seneca, Moral Letters, 101, 7b – 8a
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