” A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Meretricious examples of humanity abound throughout our experience in this life’s journey . . . until one day we meet an individual who ignites our creativity, perception, perspective, awareness, curiousity and consciousness. [...]
“Everything is fine today, that is our illusion.” — Voltaire Critical thinking takes an inordinate amount of focal consciousness. In our everyday lives we take a compendium of events for granted, given the manner in which we move through daily living. Our orientation, environment and expectation which propels our mindful genesis, contributes to the unbrella [...]
“What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash — one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.” — Eckhart Tolle, from Stillness Speaks This quote is quite [...]
“Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light.” — Luke 11:34 How we perceive the world in which we exist, emits volumes about who we are. I once understood from various sources, that we transmit the composite of our being through the energy [...]
“The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.” — Carl Sandburg Recently, I have come to understand the polemic discourse that ensues when individuals become so empassioned, emotionally infused and self involved with their polarizing opinions, viewpoints and conditioned orientation [...]
“You are the consciousness through which everything is known. And that cannot know itself; it is itself.” Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks The prism through which we look is not our ego, assets, accomplishments, status, material acquisitions, social class/level, intellectual prowess or the attachment to our “stuff.” No, this identification to the ego is an illusion. [...]
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.” — Plato Over a limited period of time, I have experienced individuals who give the appearance of engaging in discourse but in reality are caged hostages of their own minds. It becomes painfully obvious, that these individuals are completely involved with the combustion of noise [...]
“. . . refuse to carry the corpse of a mistaken yesterday.” — Ernest Holmes Over several recent conversations, an extremely close friend and I discussed how certain individuals . . . chose to embrace their failures, disappointments, mistaken choices, misdirected hurts, missed opportunities and elected irresponsibilities to color the tapestry of their present lives. [...]
“Be youself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde Perusing through this process we call life, we experience many plateaus in various sequences. Many we acknowledge with the gold standard of rewarded success, and others fall by the proverbial wayside. There can exist a series of flash points, that trigger a subtle understanding of [...]
“Standing in the light of your conscious presence, exists the essence of your self worth and being.” — JLR By definition mindfulness is: a means of paying attention, awareness without judgment of what is via direct/immediate response, and also comes from Eastern spiritual/religous traditions such as Zen/Buddhism. Manifesting can show or demonstrate plainly, as in [...]