Mindfulness Meditation (For Everyday Life)

Wherever You Go, There You Are Have you ever noticed that there is no running away from anything? That, sooner or later, the thi ...

would arise if in fact they stem in large part from your patterns of seeing, thinking, and behaving. Too often, our lives cease ...

people - wanderers with no roots, lost, going from this place to that, this job to that, this relationship to that, this idea of ...

Some people even wind up misusing teacher-led meditation retreats as a way to keep afloat in their lives rather than as an exten ...

deepen or become clearer and you will be a better person. This way of thinking and seeing is an all-too-prevalent trap. There is ...

yourself, and you think that if only you were in a cave in the Himalayas, or at an Asian monastery, or on a beach in the tropics ...

exhilarating is to extend this acute awareness into ordinary moments, in the moment-by-moment experiencing of the lammergeier an ...

places. I'm on my way up only to be on my way down, after I've found what I'm looking for, or gone to the bathroom, or whatever. ...

mindless type of anxious thinking, which varies from so subtle I have to listen carefully to detect it at all, to so dominant th ...

things like taking a shower, or eating. When you are in the shower, are you really in the shower? Do you feel the water on your ...

the burner elements and the pans underneath, even the knobs, and soak them in the sink, to be tackled at the end. Then I scrub e ...

for it ("Didn't I do a good job?") stirs, but is quickly held in a larger understanding of what had transpired. Mindfully speaki ...

unique piece of what it means to be alive, at least while we have our brief moment in the sun. But we also have the singular cap ...

representative of the universe. The rest of his life would be a gift. Instead of living for himself, he would devote himself to ...

expectations for you, or even worse, your own unexamined self-limiting beliefs and expectations. You can start asking this quest ...

own threads through the tapestry of life with authenticity and resolve. Fuller believed in an underlying architecture of nature, ...

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultiv ...

until the time comes when you are sufficiently motivated and prepared to find a way through, first to the base, then to the summ ...

In a wonderfully unfinished story called "Mount Analogue," Rene Daumal once mapped a piece of this inward adventure. The part I ...

those old folk tales, such as the one about the fox who drinks most of an old woman's pail of milk which she neglected to watch ...