Category: Make the most of life

Doing less today

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We do less by taking the time to rest mentally and physically in between or outside of our usual activities, perhaps instituting a regular practice of meditation, retreats, breaks, and reflection.

 We do less by pausing in the midst of activities: mindfulness practice (such as coming in touch with our breath in between reading or sending emails) and walking meditation are two examples.

 We do less by identifying and reducing unnecessary activities. In this case, “unnecessary” means those things that are not in alignment with what we want to accomplish.

Marc Lesser, Accomplishing More by Doing Less

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An inner voice

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Don’t ask what the world needs.

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman, African-American author and Civil Rights leader, in conversation with Gil Bailie

More conscious living

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Translation vary , but in our modern day, conversatio morum suorum generally means conversion of manners, a continuing and unsparing assessment and reassessment of one’s self and what is most important and valuable in life. In essence the individual must continually ask: What is worth living for in this place at this time? And having asked, one must then seek to act in accordance with the answer discerned

Paul Wilkes

Sunday Quote: Change

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We live our lives,

for ever taking leave

Rilke, Duino Elegies

Permanance and impermanence

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Stars and blossoming fruit trees:

Utter permanence and extreme fragility

give an equal sense of eternity.

Simone Weil

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Clear, open space

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We might think of the mind as being like clear, open space. All kinds of things arise there, but the space is not affected….In meditation  and in our lives, it is not so important what particular experience arises. What’s important is how we relate to it. By learning to relate well with whatever arises, we open to the full range of human experience, to what the Taoists call “the ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows”.

Joseph Goldstein, A Heart Full of Peace

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