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Meditation Now or Never
Simply feeling bad at times is normal. So is simply feeling good.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
Let your past inform your life, not hold sway over it. Draw upon your past only as you need to, as experience and learning that can be helpful in this moment.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
Negative emotions under wordless observation cannot last for long.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
But we can see them in a radically different light—at which point they cease to be problems.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
It’s in realizing it directly—that is, in feeling it fully without adding thought to it or interfering with it—that we can truly let it go.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
Thoughts will naturally drop away if you don’t hang on to them, don’t build them into something.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
We can’t escape problems.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
We let them come up, observe them fully without commenting, and let them fade away. That’s all.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago
If we’re stuck in our problems, it’s because we’re trying to run from them—and from our life.
from Meditation Now or Never by Steve Hagen
Justin Reidy added 6mo ago