 Some people are like magnetite: they don’t look unusual – don’t act unusual – until they are struck by lightning. (I mean metaphorically.) Like sickness, divorce, unemployment, your dog dies, you get abused. Frankly, there are a million ways to “get struck by lightning” and they all suck, except that some of them, in some people, turn on a kind of inner compass – nothing special to look at – but having a tendency to swing towards True North. In every ancient culture there were certain people to whom this was more likely to happen and they were called by different names in different cultures – medicine woman, shaman, mystic. I call then Wayfinders. Are you on this Team of Wayfinders? (I bet you are!)
– Martha Beck, About the Team video |
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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 08, 2019
 Approaching Unfavorable Conditions
Like the death of a child in a dream, – Like the death of a child in a dream |
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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 07, 2018
 Not about Comfort
A central component of spiritual life is recognizing that practice is not about ensuring that we feel secure or comfortable. It’s not that we won’t feel these things when we practice; rather, it’s that we are also bound to sometimes feel very uncomfortable and insecure, particularly when exploring and working with our darker emotions and unhealed pain. – Ezra Bayda, “The Three Things we Fear Most” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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