 “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance–that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”
– Herbert S., “Alcoholics Anonymous” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 07, 2019
 There’s magic in transitional times. In the moments when we’re no longer what we were, but not yet what we will become, we can choose to be anything.
– Martha Beck |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 06, 2019
 Bare Awareness
What we regard as the self appears to be a solid, personal identity that perceives things. But in truth there is no metabeing who unifies the parts. All our actions happen without an agent, or self, performing them. There is no seer, just the seeing; no hearer, just the hearing. – Cynthia Thatcher, “Disconnect the Dots” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 05, 2019
 The Single Thing
I don’t envision a single thing that, when developed – The Buddha, “The Single Thing” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 04, 2019
 “Seize this very minute-
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe, “Faust” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 03, 2019
 Swimming in the Infinite
There is no point in being Buddhist! One does it for the sheer joy of swimming in the infinite! – Robert Thurman, “Swimming in the Infinite” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 02, 2019
 Enlightenment is always available to you.
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive-that you can touch the miracle of being alive-then that is a kind of enlightenment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 01, 2019
 The Consequence of Understanding
When you understand interconnectedness, it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying. – Robert A. F. Thurman, “Rising to the Challenge: Cool Heroism “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for March 31, 2019
 “You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”
— Contemporary American teacher and Sixties spiritual pioneer RAM DASS, – Contemporary American teacher and Sixties spiritual pioneerRAM DASS, |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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author of Be Here Now and Be Love Now., spiritual, Cosmology and Buddhist…
Mini Mindfulness Break for March 30, 2019
 What to Give Up
We need to give up something. We can’t have it all. We can’t try to layer wisdom on top of confusion. The spiritual path is about what we give up, not what we get. – Interview with Tim Olmsted by Helen Tworkov, “The Great Experiment” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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