Mindfulness - Monday 5.14.18

Awareness in itself is healing. ~Fritz Pearls

Mindfulness - Thursday 5.3.18

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives. ~Louise Hay

Mindfulness - Monday 4.2.18

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge. ~Kristen Stendahl

Mindfulness - Monday 3.26.18

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. ~Sylvia Boorstein

Let me just address that meditation for me looks very different depending on the day or even the moment... today's meditation was happily listening to Amos Lee's Spirit. ;)

Mindfulness - Monday 3.19.18

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety. ~Deepak Chopra

Random Wisdom: Jim Butcher - Family

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ” ~ Jim Butcher

Random Wisdom: Les Brown - Hoop Quote

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames. ~ Les Brown

Random Wisdom: Bruce Lee - Priorities

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” ~ Bruce Lee

Random Wisdom: Oscar Wilde - Honesty

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Random Wisdom: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Knowing

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Random Wisdom: Albert Einstein - Clutter

“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ~ Albert Einstein

Random Wisdom: Crowfoot - Life

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” ~ Crowfoot

Random Wisdom: G. W. Huber - Magic

As adults, we give up the pretenses of childhood. Stupidly, we sacrifice those things in the name of growing up. The magic which once told us that things really could be all right is replaced by the world of newspapers and nightly news; the world that tells us that nothing, ever, is really right.

We trade our simple faith for cynicism and our dreams for a working reality. Once we've let it go, we cannot get it back. We lose the magic simply by failing to believe in it. 

~G. W. Huber, "Magic"

Random Wisdom: Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Destruction

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”  ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

Random Wisdom: Stephen Richards - Focus and Determination

“To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.” ~ Stephen Richards

Random Wisdom: Dr. Seuss - Wistfulness

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory...” ~ Dr. Seuss 

Random Wisdom: Garth Stein - Honor

“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.” ~ Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Random Wisdom: Graham Joyce - Living

"There is a shocking and beautiful indifference at large in the universe, and I just have to work with it." ~Graham Joyce

Random Wisdom: Isak Dinesen - Water

“The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.” ~Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

Random Wisdom: David Bottoms - Breaking free

“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.” ~ David Bottoms