 A broken heart is simply a heart that has a chance to become stronger. It’s a heart that is more self-sufficient, more open to the truth, and more capable of lasting love.
– Martha Beck, Heartbreak Academy: How to Make it Through Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 23, 2020
 Where the Mischief Comes From
When attention to the present moment falters and we drift into some version of ‘I have to have it my way,’ a gap is created in our awareness of reality as it is, right now. Into that gap pours all the mischief of our life. We create gap after gap after gap, all day long. The point of practice is to close those gaps, to reduce the amount of time that we spend being absent, caught in our self-centered dream. – Charlotte Joko Beck, “Attention Means Attention” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for August 07, 2020
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love as related in any way to truth. Love is seen as an experience associated with the world of fleeting emotions, no longer with truth. But is this an adequate description of love? Love cannot be reduced to an ephemeral emotion. True, it engages our affectivity, but in order to open it to the beloved and thus to blaze a trail leading away from self-centeredness and towards another person, in order to build a lasting relationship; love aims at union with the beloved. Here we begin to see how love requires truth. Only to the extent that love is grounded in truth can it endure over time, can it transcend the passing moment and be sufficiently solid to sustain a shared journey. If love is not tied to truth, it falls prey to fickle emotions and cannot stand the test of time. True love, on the other hand, unifies all the elements of our person and becomes a new light pointing the way to a great and fulfilled life. Without truth, love is incapable of establishing a firm bond; it cannot liberate our isolated ego or redeem it from the fleeting moment in order to create life and bear fruit.” – Pope Francis Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for August 03, 2020
 Unselfish Generosity
To give unselfishly is at least momentarily to be free of ourselves, free of greed and attachments, resentments and hatreds, habitual and isolating acts of self-protection. – Dale S. Wright, “The Bodhisattva’s Gift” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for June 18, 2020
 The Internal Resource
To be one’s own mainstay is to be one’s own self help. Teaching us to do that is the Buddha’s ultimate gift. – Mary Talbot, “Saving Vacchagotta” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 June 14, 2020
 Leave Room For Mystery
Faith must ripen through uncertainty and doubt. It must open us to something larger than our concepts, for these arise from within the limits of the self. Faith must, in the end, leave room for mystery. – Andrew Cooper, “The Transcendent Imperative “ Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for June 09, 2020
 From Momentary Glimpse to Lasting Illumination
Although initially the clinging to self disappears only when we’re very mindful, those moments free of delusion give deeper insight a chance to arise, and eventually wisdom becomes strong enough to trigger a permanent change of outlook. – Cynthia Thatcher, “Disconnect the Dots” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for May 12, 2020
 “As an experiment in radical self-compassion, you could give yourself permission to not-know, for now, without any shame, judgment, or pressure to urgently find answers or to resolve the mystery. But to rest and to trust in the unfolding of the human heart. This embodied not-knowing is not passive or a resigned giving up, but alive, fiery, curious, and honoring of the dark as well as the light. There is profound wisdom and creativity in the core of not-knowing, in slowness, and in rest, but we must retrain ourselves to receive that level of revelation. In this reception, we see that not-knowing is a perfectly valid, honorable, and authentic place to be, and not in need of transformation. It is a pure expression of life, in and of itself, exactly as it is. Its value is not in its transcendence, but in its full-spectrum embrace.”
– Matt Licata, Your Inner Pilot Light Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for May 05, 2020
 The Vulnerable Pronoun
We are sentient creatures easily threatened. Things harm Me. Events bruise and batter Me. The Me is our fearful Self. Me is the pronoun cast in this vulnerable role. – James Austin, “I-Me-Mine “ Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 09, 2020
 “Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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