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Within me are two wolves. One wishes to become a social worker in order to implement gradual progress within the system. The other wants to buy a gas mask and help the revolution. My God, neither will stop eating.
The kids are alright.
Mindful Post #181
If you keep score, you lose. The world and it's random and chaotic results are rarely in your favor. Stop worrying about what you deserve, what you're owed, how things should be. Accept what is, and you'll be where your power matters.
Mindful Post #180
What is natural can't be wrong. What is a consequence cannot be avoided. What is seen as discomforting can be of benefit when faced head on.
I haven't been here in a while, sorry.
Down with US imperialism, release the Epstien files, free Palestine, and make billionaires suffer. Thank you.
Mindful Post #179
It is not controlling ourselves we must move towards. It's understanding ourselves. When this is done, there will be nothing to control.
Mindful Post #178
The best way to get through a tough time is to keep moving through it. To resist it leaves you stagnating in the midst of unwanted circumstances. Get it done, even if you dislike it. Get through, and on the other side you'll be able to see it for what it was.
Mindful Post #177
Take your time, and take time off. Endless productivity is impossible, and therefore unreasonable to set as a standard for yourself. You're allowed to waste your own time, rest and return later.
UN says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
As does Amnesty, ICJ, Israeli human rights org B'TSalem, hundreds of global humanitarian orgs, & virtual every global scholar on genocide.
If you're still in denial, it means either every global org is lying—or you're on the wrong side of history.
Mindful Post #176
The drive to optimize every experience, to achieve the highest standards, to succeed in every task, ultimately leaves us coming up short. While ambition by itself is healthy, one must avoid attaching their happiness to outcomes.
Mindful Post #175
Mindfulness is being present in yourself and of yourself. Being aware and making decisions outside of reaction is how it's expressed.
Mindful Post #174
Understanding is not enlightenment. Living and working from emptiness is not enlightenment. Enlightenment is living amongst other in love and compassion. Enlightenment is not only for the practitioner, as it requires those outside of oneself to express.
Once teeming and crowded with residential buildings, Gaza City is home to one million now facing forcible displacement.
Mindful Post #173
There are many causes worth fighting for, but one can't fight every battle with their whole being. You'll be spent before you know it and have little to show for it. Focus your effort, one thing at a time, fully and presently. We save the world one battle at a time.
Mindful Post #172
To wish for things to be "the way they used to be" is a life lie that all can find themselves under the sway of. Pining for the past is little more than begging to go backwards. Find acceptance of the present to find your power in it.
Mindful Post #171
All problems are simple. Either you can solve it, and there's no reason to worry anymore, or you can't solve it, and there's no need to worry anymore. Stop trying to solve problems you can't; it steals focus and energy from solving the ones you can.
Mindful Post #170
No one likes negative experiences, but no one can avoid them either. Preemptive acceptance of normative disappointment is a powerful vaccine against the ills of unhappiness.
Mindful Post #169
Rules and expectations are things we impose upon others. Boundaries and standards, we impose on ourselves. To know the difference helps us take responsibility for our happiness.
Mindful Post #168
The moments we tend to log away in our mind are more often negative experiences. To have more positive experiences, look at the moments in-between those moments. Mindfulness will bring them forward.
Mindful Post #167
There's a reason every major religion has "the Golden Rule": it's foundationally good. Whatever you learn or achieve, however you practice spirituality, whatever enlightenment you achieve, it's all worthless if you can't treat others with dignity and respect.
Mindful Post #166
When you fall from a cliff, you can't grab the ledge with your hands full of something. When falling into bad days and hard times, one can't grasp peace if their hands are full of ingratitude and self-pity.
Mindful Post #165
To be at peace, be present in yourself. Respect your self. Keep your boundaries. Express yourself openly. Learn from everyone and try to teach through relationships. The world is all here, so join it fully.
Mindful Post #164
Misunderstandings are inevitable. It's how we address them that shows how good of communicators we are.
Mindful Post #163
Sorrow and grief are never pleasant, but natural. They are left behind when a source of great love leaves us. And like the love, it must be felt fully, accepted as loves price. Only then can you be free of it. Hold it long enough to let it go.
Mindful Post #162
Emotions will happen, you cannot prevent them. Your reaction is what you can control. You may not be responsible for feeling what you feel, but you are responsible for regulating your feeling effectively.
Mindful Post #161
When you escalate in anger to someone's foolishness, you debase yourself. Let others be loud and waste their energy. When you're asked for your side, those who are fair will listen even if you whisper.
Mindful Post #160
There's nothing more unfair we can do to ourselves than accepting blame for what we aren't responsible for in the mistaken attempt to fix something wrong that we didn't cause.
Mindful Post #159
Your mind is filled with ideas about who people are. Your family, your friends, your coworkers, strangers on the internet: who they are in your head is only a caricature of the true depth of their being. Remember, the amount you don't know about those around you is infinite.
Mindful Post #158
We are not living our life to meet the expectations of others. We are meant to aid and encourage eachother, not bow and scrape for approval. The freedom to be happy is the courage to be disliked.