From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.
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Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.
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Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation – to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.
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You are only here now; you’re only alive in this moment.
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The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.
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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.
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It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
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Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it’s also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.
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