Tag: Mindfulness

Time passing

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Everything comes down to time in the end – to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything that makes you happy or sad, isn’t it all based on minutes going by? Isn’t happiness expecting something that time is going to bring you? Isn’t sadness wishing time back again? If only you could turn it back again, you think. If only you could change this or that, undo what you have done, if only you could roll the minutes the other way, for once.

Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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Not caught up in ideas

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Among the sixteen types of meditation,

the baby’s practice is the best.

Yuan Wu, Chinese Chan monk, 1063–1135

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Stillness

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To bring your attention to a stone, a tree, or an animal does not mean to think about it, but simply to perceive it, to hold it in your awareness. … Something of its essence then transmits itself to you. You can sense how still it is, and in doing so the same stillness arises within you. You sense how deeply it rests in Being – completely at one with what it is and where it is. In realizing this you too come to a place of rest deep within yourself.

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

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Sunday Quote: Joy

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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth

Always here…

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It takes three things to create a sense of significant being:
God,
a soul,
and a moment.

And the three are always present.

Rabbi Abbrahm Joshus Heschel

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The reacting mind

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Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or YOU? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. Reality is not problematic. Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with “me” and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality. 

Anthony de Mello, sj.

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