We can be alone without feeling lonely or sad. We can be alone and useful and content. I am not implying that happiness lies in the complete independence that comes with being alone - after all, we are intrinsically social. Only that aloneness can be pleasant while it lasts, helping to prepare us for interdependence … Continue reading On Being Alone Without Feeling Lonely
“If our life did not fade and vanish like the dews of Adashino’s graves or the drifting smoke from Toribe’s burning grounds, but lingered on for ever, how little the world would move us. It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful.” For two days now my grandfather, mother’s father, has been … Continue reading What Happened to Grandfather
Every day we have so many things to do and so many tasks to complete that it can be difficult for us to be mindful: to be aware of what we are doing and how we are doing it; to be present and awake; to attend to our own existence; to let ourselves be enveloped … Continue reading The Quiet Joy of Mindfulness
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