Tag: Mindfulness

Simple instructions for this day

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Smile,

breathe

and go slowly.

Thich Nhat Hahn

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Sunday Quote: Changing our mindset

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Nature does not hurry,

yet everything is accomplished.

 Lao Tzu

Non duality

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Look at love – how it tangles
with the one fallen in love

look at spirit – how it fuses with earth
giving it new life.

Why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend

why talk about all the known and the unknown
see how the unknown merges into the known

why think separately of this life and the next
when one is born from the last

look at your heart and tongue
one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs

look at water and fire, earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once

the wolf and the lamb, the lion and the deer
far away yet together

look at the unity of this
spring and winter, manifested in the equinox

you too must mingle my friends
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me

be like sugarcane, sweet yet silent
don’t get mixed up with bitter words

my beloved grows right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be.

Rumi, Look at Love

Lightness

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Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

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To wait

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To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life – to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don’t go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.

Elizabeth Lesser.

Self blessing

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All of us, from time to time, doubt our inner goodness and beauty. We have to rediscover it within or be reminded by others that it lies there: 

Sometimes it is necessary

to reteach a thing its loveliness, 

to put a hand on its brow 

of the flower

and retell it in words and in touch 

it is lovely

until it flowers again from within

of self-blessing.

Galway Kinnell, St Francis and the Sow

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