Living Mindfully
Paying attention to what you are doing right now is mindfulness. Just breathing — that’s mindfulness! Just walking — that’s mindfulness! Just eating — that’s mindfulness! In mindfulness is relaxation. How many moments in our life have we lived mindfully? The more moments we can count, the more relaxed we will likely feel.
The One-Minute Meditator: Relieving Stress and Finding Meaning in Everyday Life
David Nichol and Bill Birchard
Inquiring Into Sensations
If we don’t inquire into our sensations we might perceive them as unbearably intense, and presume they will continue to be so for a long time. However, if we do inquire into our sensations, we soon notice their evanescent nature.
Realizing Changes
Sensations differ from second to second, and they might disappear entirely within minutes. The realization sensations come and go will allow us to break our tendency to assume that things are more lasting and painful than they could ever be.
Daily Wisdom
Edited by Josh Bartok
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering. The pain we witness can be overwhelming. Then suddenly, the Spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer with extraordinary love.
Mother Teresa
Do Something Beautiful for God
Mother Teresa
Happiness is Now
Happiness is now — it can’t be found any other time. If we search for happiness outside this moment, it will always seems just beyond our reach.
True happiness is our natural state of being. Happiness is our birthright, and it is not gained through forceful effort, but is discovered and realized once we let go of all the things keeping it hidden. As the saying goes — the sun is always shining behind the clouds.
A Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness
Mark Van Buren
Thoughts About Me
We’re conditioned to think about ourselves all the time. Thoughts about me, myself, and I dominate our mind from the moment we become conscious in the morning to the last flickers of mental activity before we fall asleep. What I want. How I feel. What I will do.
Antidote to Self-Obsession
It’s striking how the most effective and direct antidote to our self-obsession is the one that occurs to us most seldom: that is, instead of thinking about ourselves, to deliberately think about others. We don’t usually need to look far to find opportunities to practice love or compassion.
Taking a Broader View
Other beings are no different from us in wanting happiness, and most are less likely or able than us to experience it. Whatever the cause of our distress, taking a broader view usually puts our own position swiftly into perspective.
Enlightenment to Go
David Michie
Who Knows Anyhow? 