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Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the edge of the roof.
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Global peace meditation at 9am PST/ 12pm EST.
Collective intentions are powerful. By creating inner peace, we take the first step to creating a world in peace.
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“Life stories do not simply reflect personality. They are personality, or more accurately, they are important parts of personality, along with other parts, like dispositional traits, goals, and values.”
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.
I sometimes use the darkness (and symbology) of the new moon as a marker to quiet the mind and meditate on an area of personal growth. Sometimes I do this by picking an inspiring quote that can act as a North Star for the month. This quote by James Baldwin seemed right for the times - especially since yesterday was his birthday. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” We all have something we hate. If we all dug deep and figured out why we hate the things we do, this world would be a much better place. #newmoon #meditation #quotestoliveby
I am inviting you to go deeper, to
learn and to practice so that you
become someone who has a great
capacity for being solid, calm, and
without fear, because our society
needs people like you who have
these qualities, and your children,
our children, need people like you,
in order to go on, in order to become
solid, and calm, and without fear.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
When we ride kaleidoscopes. 🎠 Santa Monica, CA. (at Santa Monica, California)
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