Tag: Be fully present

Good food

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If we pay attention only to the negative things in us, especially the suffering of past hurts, we are wallowing in our sorrows and not getting any positive nourishment. We can practice appropriate attention, watering the wholesome qualities in us by touching the positive things that are always available inside and around us. That is good food for our mind. Naturally, when compassion comes up, arrogance goes down. We can selectively water the good seeds and refrain from watering the negative seeds. This doesn’t mean we ignore our suffering; it just means that we allow the positive seeds that are naturally there to get attention and nourishment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Sunday Quote: No mistakes

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Celebrate Life

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To me, life in its totality is good. And when you understand life in its totality, only then can you celebrate; otherwise not. Celebration means: whatsoever happens is irrelevant – I will celebrate. Celebration is not conditional on certain things: “When I am happy then I will celebrate,” or, “When I am unhappy I will not celebrate.” Celebration is unconditional; I celebrate life.

Osho

Remember

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All wisdom traditions, religious and secular, speak of the ability to maintain a still place within, no matter how busy we are. The word mindfulness traces its origin to the pali word “to remember”

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people

and eats and sleeps with them

and buys and sells in the market

and marries and takes part in social intercourse,

and never forgets God for a single moment.

Abu Sa’id ibn Abi l-Tkayr, Sufi Poet, 967 – 1049

A place to rest

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Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself

… and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst 

What is happiness?

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I have come to see that our problem is that we don’t know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It’s the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.

Mark Epstein, Opening Up to Happiness