Sublime

When making time for your practice, be cautious about “fitting it in” your day. This can be impossible to do when your days are already packed. Consider instead “building it in.” No matter how busy you are, you still find time to brush your teeth. Make your practice just as important.

The goal is self-knowledge, self-reliance, self-love, self-trust, and improved intimacy with others. It is often hard-won. And it often takes many years to feel that any shift has occurred.

To choose acceptance over delusion and wishful thinking. To choose presence over distraction. To choose patience over speed. To choose vulnerability over invincibility. To choose community over isolation. To choose movement over sitting still. To choose groundedness over heroic individualism.

The great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once

The best approach is to bring a beginner’s mind, be open, and curious.

Practicing Self-Compassion with Ease

Where We Learn about the Important Discipline of Maintaining Daily Bliss

When you have cultivated mindfulness, life becomes richer, more vivid, more satisfying, and you don’t take everything that happens so personally. Attention plays a more appropriate role within the greater context of a broad and powerful awareness. You’re fully present, happier, and at ease, because you’re not so easily caught up in the stories and