Tag: Be fully present

Give this gift today

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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simone Weil.

The everyday

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We want life to have meaning, we want fulfillment, healing and even ecstasy,

but the human paradox is that we find these things by starting where we are,

not where we wish we were.

 Kathleen Norris, The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and “Women’s Work”

No longer rushing after something

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The mind can be free only when it is completely still. Though it has problems, innumerable urges, conflicts, ambitions, if — through self-knowledge, through watching itself without acceptance or condemnation — the mind is choicelessly aware of its own process, then out of that awareness there comes an astonishing silence, a quietness of the mind in which there is no movement of any kind. It is only then that the mind is free because it is no longer desiring anything; it is no longer seeking; it is no longer pursuing a goal, an ideal — which are all the projections of a conditioned mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Calm weather

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The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away

and the weather is clear again.

If your heart is clear, then all things in your world are clear

Ryokan, Zen poet, 1758 – 1831

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Entry points

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If the intention is to bring awareness to the direct experience of the present moment, with fresh eyes, then life itself becomes the practice. What’s so powerful about understanding that wherever you are that is the entry point is that it frees us of this false belief that we need to be in a certain head space to train our minds toward mindfulness. In the moments you are doubting, agitated, restless or bored, these are the entry points to the present moment…no matter what is happening in your life at any given moment, that is what you can practice being mindful with.

Elisha Goldstein, A Key Mindful Lesson for us all

You do not have to wait

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Wherever you are,

that is the entry point

Kabir