| Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your souffles are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.
– Martha Beck
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| Ego, the illusion of a self separate from Life, is what we experience as fear. Ego is not real; fear is not real. They are made up, imaginary, existing only in a story in conditioned mind. When we bring conscious compassionate awareness to anything, we see through the made up stories and directly touch authenticity. We do not view those actions that elicit old conditioned responses as attacks, rather as sincere efforts in the minefield that is communication.
– Cheri Huber, Daily Peace Quote
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 How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy A new book from Dr. Jerome Freedman How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is based on a nine week Zoom class I taught in early 2022 to 8-12 people, many new to mindfulness practices. The book expands on the topics covered … |
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| Maintain Clarity by Being Present
Confusion proliferates when we can’t stay present with whatever we encounter.
– Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, “Open Stillness”
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| Introducing… |
| How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy A new book from Dr. Jerome Freedman How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy is based on a nine week Zoom class I taught in early 2022 to 8-12 people, many new to mindfulness practices. The book expands on the topics covered … |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
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–Jerome |
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| Take A Moment
As an experiment, the next time you are doing an errand, stuck in traffic, or standing in line at the supermarket, instead of being preoccupied with where you’re going or what needs to be done, take a moment to simply send loving wishes to all those around you. Often, there is an immediate and very remarkable shift as we feel more connected and more present.
– Joseph Goldstein, “Triumph of the Heart”
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| Meditation Practices for Mindful Eating |
 Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh has spoken quite often about the importance of mindful eating. He has, in fact, given us mindfulness practices for mindful eating. For example, in Plum Village or even at retreats in the United States or Canada, every meal is consumed … |
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| Abiding Faith
In Buddhism faith is a verb. It’s the offering of one’s heart. It’s not a commodity we have or don’t have. It’s something we do. Faith is a liberating process that deepens as our wisdom deepens. In fact, wisdom and faith support each other. With abiding faith, we know a truth so deeply that it’s not something we even think about anymore–we are it.
– Sharon Salzberg, “Reclaiming Faith”
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| Give Back to Your Community |
 One of the Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing is to give back to your community when you are ready. This is important for two reasons. The first reason is that a gift of service to your community has the benefit of getting you out of yourself long enough to serve others. … |
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| Riding the Waves
The ebb and flow of life is not unlike the sea. Sure, sometimes it’s calm and serene, but at other times the waves can be so big that they threaten to overwhelm us. These fluctuations are an inevitable part of life. But when you forget this simple fact, it’s easy to get swept away by strong waves of difficult emotions.
– Andy Puddicombe, “10 Tips for Living More Mindfully”
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| The Turth Within You – Swami Vivekananda |
 This quote came for a card from a friend a long time ago. It has been waiting to be shared all this time. The teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna were the first teachings I was exposed to when I began meditation practices at the Vedanta Center in Chicago. We wou … |
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| Changing is not a matter of doing, it is a matter of accepting.
– Cheri Huber
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| Good Grief! In Memory of Dr. John Anderson |
 We just got back from a celebration of the passing of our good friend, Dr. John Anderson on Sunday, October 27 at the Merryman Beach House on Moonstone Beach in Trinidad, California. John passed away on September 29, the same day that my daughter, Jessica left for Barcelona. He w … |
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| I think I need to keep being creative, not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it.
– Willie Nelson, Daily Peace Quote
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| Enneagram Point 6 – The Trooper |
 To celebrate the redesign of the Enneagram Instrument website, we are offering this excerpt of Point Six on the enneagram. Habits of Heart and Mind of the Trooper Point Six on the Enneagram represents the point of the Trooper, also called the
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| Sky Mind, Cloud Thoughts
We cannot push the clouds away, but we can allow the clouds of thought to gradually dissolve until finally all the clouds have vanished. Ultimate realization occurs when there is no trace of the cloud layers whatsoever.
– Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, “As the Clouds Vanish “
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| How to Transform Suffering into an Opportunity for Growth |
 Here we have more words of wisdom from Robert Emmons. This lesson is on how to transform suffering into an opportunity for growth. He quotes Abraham Maslow, who we heard from recently in The Creative Spirit Of The Self-Actualizer last month. It continue … |
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