A simple poem by a sincere meditator

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Wednesday life form blogging

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Organizing things

Hmmm. This is something to ponder, I would say:

“When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves, we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order.”

- Shunryu Suzuki

Monday meditative picture blogging

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The importance of observing the mind

This is very hard for many people to comprehend. It's true all the same. The key word here is "unobserved". Once we start observing our mind, our suffering begins to decrease.

"The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life."

- Eckhart Tolle

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A process of becoming

It's possible I may have posted this one before but, if so, it was a long time ago. I think it's worth a repeat in any case:

“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

-- Anaïs Nin 

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A very interesting observation

Hmmmmm. I never thought about it quite this way before:

"We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time."

-- Pema Chödrön

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Here's something my Facebook friend, Doris McFate posted today. Isn't it lovely? It's a patch of feverfew:

Just in case you've forgotten...