You may not control all events that happen to you
but you can decide not to be reduced by them
Maya Angelou
photo bart everson
Tag: balance
Why meditation helps
Meditation is the discovery
that the point of life is always arrived at
in the immediate moment.
Alan Watts
with thanks again to Ellen for the beautiful autumn photo
An act of hospitality
Mindfulness is an act of hospitality.
A way of learning to treat ourselves with kindness and care that slowly begins to percolate into the deepest recesses of our being while gradually offering us the possibility of relating to others in the same manner. Working with whatever is present is enough. There is no need to condemn ourselves for not feeling loving or kind. Rather, the process simply asks us to entertain the possibility of offering hospitality to ourselves no matter what we are feeling or thinking.
This week try taking some time to explore the possibility of sitting with yourself as if you were your own best friend.
Saki Santorelli, Befriending Self
photo Carriec
Sunday Quote: Movement
The deepest words of the wise…teach us…
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing
Antonio Marchado
photo of the Allondon river near Crozet, France.
Holding both efforts
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning,
that without listening speaking no longer heals,
that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen
Substance and weight
How often do our thoughts condition reactions in the mind, as if the thought itself had substance? Yet the thought of a friend is not the friend; it is a thought. How many life scenarios have we created, directed and starred in and, for those moments, taken to be the experience itself? We also may get carried away by the intense energy of our emotions, swept up in a typhoon of the mind and body. To be lost in emotions is not to be mindful of their energy; and when there is a strong identified involvement with them, there is no space in the mind for seeing clearly what is happening.
Joseph Goldstein, in Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
photo autumn wind by jojo
