Tag: impermanence

Build your own

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This is where we run into trouble in terms of being fulfilled… You have to make your own happiness, wherever you are.

Your job isn’t going to make you happy, your spouse isn’t going to make you happy, the weather isn’t going to make you happy… You have to decide what you want, and you have to find that way of doing it, whether or not the outside circumstances are going to participate in your success… You have to be able to create your own happiness, period.

Jonathan Fields, American author, in interview with Debbie Millman on the GoodLIfe Project

Being with what is

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At any moment, whatever we are experiencing, only one of two things is ever happening: either we are being with what is, or else we are resisting what is.

Being with what is means letting ourselves have and feel our experience, just as it is right now. …

This is where genuine creativity, health, and communication, as well as spiritual power, arise from.

John Welwood

Finally, instructions for life

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We waste a lot of time seeking someone to tell us what life will be like once we live it. We drain ourselves of inner fortitude by asking others to map our way.

At the end of all this stalling, though, we each have to venture out and simply see what happens. 

The instructions are in the living,

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Time to start living

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The fool, with all his other faults, has this one also,

he is always getting ready to live.

Seneca

Sunday Quote: When

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The beginning is always today

Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 – 1797 English writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights

Cycles

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Instead of seeing time as a straight line,

if we see life as a series of cycles of growth, maturation, and death followed by rebirth,

we can better understand why endings are necessary for new beginnings.

Jeremy Hunter, mindfulness teacher, founder Executive Mind Leadership Institute