A year of streaming my weekday morning meditation practice during the pandemic.
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“a little broken, a little new.
we are the impact and the glue.
capable more than we know
to call this fixer upper home.”
~ Sleeping at Last
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Life is a beautiful thing.
Just take it all in and breathe,
breathe, breathe.
~ Creola Johnson
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“Meditation, so I've heard, is best accomplished
if you entertain a certain strict posture.
Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.
So why should I think I could ever be successful?”
~ Mary Oliver
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"Holiness is reached not through effort or will, but by stopping; by an inward coming to rest; a place from which we can embody the spirit of all our holy days, a radical, inhabited simplicity, where we live in a kind of ongoing surprise and with some wonder and appreciation."
~ David Whyte
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What does it mean to let our thoughts drift by like clouds?
Shifting our awareness from what our thoughts mean to how they fluctuate is an attentional exercise that develops liberating abilities over time.
Observing the movement of clouds can provide a glimpse into how we can relate to mental activity more objectively, but it oversimplifies things when the analogy is taken too literally.
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"The trouble with the present is
that it's always in a state of vanishing.
Take the second it takes to end
this sentence with a period – already gone."
~ Billy Collins
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"My life is an open book. It lies here
on a glass tabletop, its pages shamelessly exposed,
outspread like a bird with hundreds of thin paper wings.
It is a biography, needless to say,
and I am reading and writing it simultaneously
in a language troublesome and private."
~ Billy Collins
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"We know that you're made up of trillions of little things made from more little things that are constantly changing. Together, all those little things are not static, but dynamic."
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the strangest things can conjure up the past,
and forgotten time will find its long way back.
as thin as air, as light as snow
some combination of the unknown,
but it doesn’t matter, i just know i need more.
~ Sleeping at Last
"This is my daily practice: watching each experience rise and fall within me, like waves in the ocean, while the world goes on doing what it will do."
~ Jillisa Hope Milner
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The universe began with our eyes closed.
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"When you read it you realize that everything is constantly changing, and that that is, at least often, the key to a great story..."
~ Ben Marcus
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Praise
flow and change, night and
the pulse of day.
"If a community of speakers is using a word and knows what it means, it's real. That word might be slangy, that word might be informal, that word might be a word that you think is illogical or unnecessary, but that word that we're using, that word is real."
~ Anne Curzan
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Transcendence isn't an escape plan, but an engagement strategy: liberation through intimacy. Transcending the self and the world begins with deeply accepting the self and the world. It grows naturally out of countless direct experiences of life as it is being lived and an intimate familiarity with how its composition constantly fluctuates.
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