Sharings and reflections by Sr. Ellie Finlay of St. John's Center for Spiritual Formation
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Definition of mindfulness
We westerners have been conditioned to believe that greater complexity implies greater value. Not necessarily so:
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
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