“Mindful consumption is the way to heal ourselves and to heal the world.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh via 16 Simple Ways to Practice Mindful Consumption in a Hyper-Consumer World : The New Pursuit | One Life. One Planet. Live Deeply..
Archives for November 19, 2014
On Learning to Live Life to the Fullest – Purpose Fairy
On Learning to Live Life to the Fullest – Purpose Fairy.
Understanding Fear
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Radical Interdependence
Foundation, Practice, Fulfillment | November 19, 2014 Starting with this most simple of expressions—When this is, that is—[Thich Nhat Hanh] explicated dependent origination as a vision of radical interdependence, or what he called “interbeing,” in which all beings support and are in turn supported by all other beings. This elaboration . . . encompassed the […]
The Wonders of Life
“People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.“ – St Augustine
We Are in Deep Trouble
I just finished watching Origins, a movie about our roots, our planet, and our future. It made me cry as I thought about how we are in deep trouble. We are in deep trouble with our food system. This puts us in deep trouble with our health and our medical systems. This means that big […]
