Category: Be fully present

The secret

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being willing for things to be

as they are

Charlotte Joko Beck, Nothing Special

Our fixed thoughts

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If one lets go of this very mind,

bound by its knots,

there is no doubt:

it will be free.

Saraha, 8th century CE

Learning to stay

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The sad part is that all we’re trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we proceed in such a way that the uneasiness only gets worse. The message here is that the only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, learn to stay with the itch and urge of shenpa, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn’t continue to rule our lives, and the patterns that we consider unhelpful don’t keep getting stronger as the days and months and years go by.

Pema Chodron, Taking the Leap

Being gentle today

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If your compassion does not include yourself,

it is incomplete.

Jack Kornfield

Steering the ship

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Past events are already gone, and the future is yet to happen. It is only in the present that we can be in our life. The present is the joystick, controlling the moment, and thus the direction our life takes. Being with the breath is the most effective way of being in the present. It completely connects us with reality.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Running with the Mind of Meditation

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…In where we are

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Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment

 – where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels

 – this moment shows us that what is real is sacred.

Mark Nepo