 Jealousy Can Guide Us
If we can resist the urge of jealousy and envy to pull us deeply into the fantasies we weave about ourselves and others–‘she has this or that, and I have nothing’–we can see them as signposts that point the way to a truth about ourselves, and use their appearance as an urgent call to look within. – Emma Varvaloucas, “Jealousy & Envy “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for November 22, 2018
 Right now, many of us feel an immense shift in the way humans live in this world. That shift, while benevolent, comes from within, rather than from our culture. That means your inner compass will inevitably tell you to break society’s expectations. Maybe that’s happening right now. If not, wait a few minutes. It’s coming.
– Martha Beck, Compass v. Culture…Insight From Martha |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for November 10, 2018
 Ahimsa is a comprehensive principle. We are helpless mortals caught in the conflagration of himsa. The saying that life lives on life has a deep meaning in it. Man cannot for a moment live without consciously or unconsciously committing outward himsa. The very fact of his living – eating, drinking and moving about – necessarily involves some himsa, destruction of life, be it ever so minute. A votary of ahimsa therefore remains true to his faith if the spring of all his actions is compassion, if he shuns to the best of his ability the destruction of the tiniest creature, tries to save it, and thus incessantly strives to be free from the deadly coil of himsa. He will be constantly growing in self-restraint and compassion, but he can never become entirely free from outward himsa.
– ? Mahatma Gandhi |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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