Seeds of Love

We all need a personal inner space of peace and safety, like birds seeking refuge, returning to a familiar place time and again. With mindfulness as our practice, our first place of refuge is to return to the present. "I have arrived, I am home in the here and in the now, I am solid, I am free." Each breath can be an opportunity to gather our energy and return to our real "home," which is within.   Thich Nhat Hahn

I am Not My Body

This body is not me.

I am not limited by this body.

I am life without boundaries.

I have never been born,

and I have never died.

Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations from my wondrous true mind.

Since before time, I have been free.

Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey.

Birth and death are a game of hide- and seek.

So laugh with me,

hold my hand,

let us say good-bye,

say good-bye, to meet again soon.

We meet today.

We will meet again tomorrow.

We will meet at the source every moment.

We meet each other in all forms of life.

~By Thich Nhat Hanh

MIndfulness

"The answer to anger or other negative states is not to suppress or deny them, but to embrace them with mindfulness like a mother with a baby."  Thich Nhat Hanh

Change

"It is far more creative to work with the idea of mindfulness rather than the idea of will.   Too often people try to change their lives by using will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape.   The intellect identifies the goal of the program, and the will accordingly forces the life into that shape.   This way of approaching the sacredness of ones own presence is externalistic and violent.   It brings you falsely outside yourself, and you can spend years lost in the wilderness of your own mechanical, spiritual programs.   You can perish in a famine of your own making."   John O' Donahue