 You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
– Alan Watts 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 22, 2019
 Sometimes, when I can’t reach the Calm, I’ll just stomp into the Storm with the wild hope that it’s more benevolent than it seems. With a sort of inner Viking war scream, I’ll open the grim and complicated spreadsheets from the bank, or go get the painful medical test, or initiate the conversation I’m way too afraid to have. If there’s nothing else to do, I’ll sit in a silent room, refuse to distract myself, and face the tempest in my mind.
– Martha Beck, The Storm Before the Calm 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 May 14, 2019
 Joyful Energy
We can get greater energy out of love and joy than out of hatred. Hatred is so off balance. You blow your adrenals in one minute, then you’re shaky and weak. But if you’re joyful, you’ll get an endless source of energy. – Robert Thurman, “Rising to the Challenge: Cool Heroism” 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 April 28, 2019
 Give Yourself Space
What cultivating attention to detail introduces is spaciousness, space around thoughts and activities, that allows us to live a rich and satisfying life. – Darlene Cohen, “Pain Without Suffering” |
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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 April 03, 2019
 Swimming in the Infinite
There is no point in being Buddhist! One does it for the sheer joy of swimming in the infinite! – Robert Thurman, “Swimming in the Infinite” |
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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 March 21, 2019
 Take a Fresh Look
When we trust with our open heart, whatever occurs, at that very moment that it occurs, can be perceived as fresh and unstained by the clouds of hope and fear. – Dr. Jeremy Hayward, First Thought” |
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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 January 19, 2019
 One of my favorite contemporary Catholic writers, Fr. Richard Rohr, asks: “What good is it if God or Jesus is really present, but you are not? If you are Really Present, you will know the Real Presence. It is really that simple.”
– Lama Surya Das quoting Fr. Richard Rohr |
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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 January 10, 2019
 Remembering MLK
We are caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality. . . . Strangely enough I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way the world is made. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Sangha by Another Name” |
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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 December 27, 2018
 Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.
The foundational practice continues to be Centering Prayer, as taught by Father Thomas Keating. Cynthia Bourgeault defines Centering Prayer simply– when you catch yourself thinking, let the thought or feeling go. By letting go of the objects of attention, you naturally experience objectless awareness, even if it’s only for a nanosecond. Incrementally, this non-constricted attitude brings about a capacity to rest in the Cave of the Heart and to begin to see what the heart sees, which gets at the deeper meaning of the phrase: “Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God” – Emaho! Lama Surya Das |
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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 December 06, 2018
 The Way
When the way ahead is open and clear and one has the goodwill, light-heartedness, and courage to tread it, the past and the future melt into nothingness, life is lived from the center of one’s being, and the self becomes as meaningful as the blue sky, the green fields, the flowing rivers, the littered streets, the hustling crowds, the filth and the beauty. – Diana St. Roth, “The Way” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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