Tag: Be fully present

Distinguish

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Today is Pancake Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. In Latin countries, it marks the end of the Carnival period, Mardi Gras or “Fat Tuesday”. The practice of carnival probably began in ancient times when the last Sunday before the beginning of Lent was called Dominica Carnevala, or “farewell to meat Sunday” – referring to the upcoming Lenten period of fasting and simplification

.Simplify the problem of life: 

distinguish the necessary and the real.

Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. 

Thoreau

difficult times

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Remember to keep a calm head in difficult times

[aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem]

Horace, Odes, book II, poem III, lines 1 – 2

The depth dimension

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Developing good habits for a new month:

A practice is any act habitually entered into with our whole heart that takes us to the deeper place. Some of these practices, we might not think of as prayer and meditation: tending the roses, a long, slow walk to no place in particular, a quiet moment at day’s end, being vulnerable in the presence of that person in whose presence we’re taken to the deeper place, the pause between two lines of a poem.

There are these acts that reground us in the depth dimensions of our life that matter most; so if we’re faithful to our practice, our practice will be faithful to us.

James Finlay, Practice That Grounds Us in the Sustaining Love of God

Balance

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A person who thinks all the time

has nothing to think about except thoughts,

so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusion.


Alan Watts

How we live

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The value of a life
does not depend on
the place we occupy;

It depends on the way
we occupy that place.

attributed to Therese of Lisieux

How to resolve problems

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Wait in the stillness,

until you get what you came for.

Byron Katie