“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..

On Learning to Live Life to the Fullest – Purpose Fairy.

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

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 […]

“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

Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh: Wendy Johnson – Upaya Zen Center.

The Great Heart Way | November 18, 2014 If we learn to keep our mind quiet through meditation, to just stay present with our feelings, to connect with our heart, to let go of the story lines, and to directly feel all the unpleasant sensations associated with our emotional hurts, then the heart will open […]

Apply Yourself | November 17, 2014 If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living—that is to say, the present—you can live all the time that remains to you […]