February 2012
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“Even if it is very foggy, cloudy or stormy, the blue sky is always there for us,...”
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Ando writes.: Better day 23. →
andowrites:
“Don’t let. Dust settle.” Don’t let the dust settle around you. Don’t let dust settle in your mind. Don’t let dust settle in your life.
Keep dusting. Dust attracts more dust. A thin layer of dust today can become a mountain of dust and dirt over time, obliterating what was there.
Keep…
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,...”
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“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the...”
– Thich Nhat Hahn (via thdandeliongirl)
“Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via emotional-algebra)
“Patience is a way to de-escalate aggression and its accompanying pain. This is...”
– Pema Chödrön- Practicing Peace In Times Of War (via therapyinminneapolis)
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how childhood maltreatment primes the brain for... →
Child maltreatment has been called the tobacco industry of mental health. Much the way smoking directly causes or triggers predispositions for physical disease, early abuse may contribute to virtually all types of mental illness.
Now, in the largest study yet to use brain scans to show the effects of child abuse, researchers have found specific changes in key regions in and around the...
“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.”
– Eckhart Tolle (via jerseydamu)
wordslessspoken:
Try to practice loving-kindness and develop metta even towards those that oppress others. We most often loathe in others those dark corners of ourselves which we see reflected in them. In the end you may not change them, but you will develop compassion for the tormentor as well as the tormented and realize that they are both. When we do that, we come closer to seeing and...
Ando writes.: Better day 15. →
andowrites:
“Every day. Mindfulness.” Do you have too much ‘stuff’? Stuff from your past, cluttering up drawers, cupboards, car, bag, your pockets. Stuff you’ve gathered along life’s way, and become too attached to be able to move it on.
The same can go for the stuff we crowd our minds with, also stuff…
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be…when I look at a...”
– Carl Rogers (via emotional-algebra)
Sticking With It: How to sustain your meditation... →
wordslessspoken:
Excellent article! File it away and re-read it when you feel stuck in a rut. Great advice!
From Tricycle Magazine
just what i needed
“Whatever you do mindfully is meditation. From time to time I let myself look at...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via smilerelease)
“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the...”
– Eckhart Tolle “ (via sparkmark)
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your relationship with your breath →
What’s your relationship like to your breath? Do you have one?
There are days that go by when I think I take about two full breaths. Sound familiar? I have a magnet on my vision board that reminds me to breathe, and a huge “Inhale, Exhale” card obviously doing the same. But it’s still not enough. I mean, how many reminders do we need?
We’re basically lazy when it...
“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your...”
– Rick Warren (via internal-acceptance-movement)
“The past is gone, and I don’t know what’s coming in the future....”
What to Do When Nothing Goes Your Way | Medicinal... →
sundownsocialwork:
On what to do when everything falls apart and you just don’t quite know what the heck to do with yourself*:
It is advisable that you do this step prior to any such falling apart. Learn what pulls you up and pieces you back together. Identify your support system. Write a map to happiness. Create a safety plan, an in-case-of-emergency plan. Figure out who you’ll call, what...
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief...”
– Saint Bartholomew (via nirvikalpa)
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“True happines is to enjoy the present, without axious dependence upon the...”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (via thelittlephilosopher)
NY Times: Mindful Eating →