On Learning to Live Life Fully Now. Learn to live life fully now. Make each moment the primary focus of your life. Teat every moment as if it were your last, and by doing so, you will make your life a lot easier and you will become a lot happier. Source: On Learning to Live […]
Archives for August 2015
We Can’t Overlook Our Bodies
August 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
We Can’t Overlook Our Bodies There are two truths in Buddhism; one is relative and one is absolute. We tend to want to be in the absolute, where we are all the same, we are all one. But that is not where our suffering lies. Our suffering lies in the relative truth, in how we […]
CELEBRATING CONFUSION
August 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment
“People who dwell on this perceived instability are likely to experience greater uncertainty than those who dwell on fixed categories. For some, such uncertainty represents an absence of personal control. From a mindful perspective, however, uncertainty creates the freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty. If there is no choice, […]
Shopping the Dharma
August 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Consumer Mentality When we turn to spirituality, we may think that we’re leaving the corruption of the world behind. But our old ways of thinking do not disappear; they follow us, coloring the way we approach spiritual practice. Since we have all been raised to be good consumers—getting the most while paying the least—as […]
25 Life Changing Lessons to Learn from Anne Frank – Purpose Fairy
August 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
25 Life Changing Lessons to Learn from Anne Frank. For those of you who don’t know, Anne Frank is the author of one of the most read books in the whole world – The Diary of a Young Girl, book that is an actual diary. Anne started her diary at the age of only 13, […]
The Weary Advocate’s Guide to Happiness — Still Harbor
August 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Weary Advocate’s Guide to Happinessby Heather Lyn MannFor twenty-five years I worked on the front lines of environmental justice. Thirteen years ago I adopted Buddhism as a spiritual practice. In many ways daily meditation, Sutra study, and retreats with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh transformed my advocacy methods and goals, but the stress and […]
Give Back
August 5, 2015 by
The seventh of the 7 Principles of Mindfulness in Healing from the book, Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness is to give back to your community when you are ready. Here is why. When you are battling cancer or other illnesses, the last thing on your mind is to give back to your community […]
Good Impatience, Bad Impatience
August 4, 2015 by
Good Impatience, Bad Impatience Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn’t distorted. – Paul Ekman, “The Best and Worst of Us”
“HOW DO I DO IT?” VS. “CAN I DO IT?”
August 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment
“HOW DO I DO IT?” VS. “CAN I DO IT?” “In contrast, a process orientation . . . asks ‘How do I do it?’ instead of ‘Can I do it?’ and this directs attention toward defining the steps that are necessary on the way. This orientation can be characterized in terms of the guiding principle […]
Join Support Groups
August 4, 2015 by
The sixth of the 7 Principles of Mindfulness in Healing from the book, Healing with the 7 Principles of Mindfulness is to reach out to others. An important component of reaching out to others is to join support groups. Here is why. Support groups are wonderful for your healing experience because you are able to […]
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