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The overwhelming majority of participants in mindfulness classes come for stress reduction and more ease of living, while in the traditional Buddhist setting the focus is more on spirituality and the attainment of liberation
“We live in a world that responds to our longing; it is a place where the echoes always return, even if sometimes slowly.”
― Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
― Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
“In the symbiotic community of the forest, not only trees but also shrubs and grasses—and possibly all plant species—exchange information this way. However, when we step into farm fields, the vegetation becomes very quiet. Thanks to selective breeding, our cultivated plants have, for the most part, lost their ability to communicate above or below ground—you could say they are deaf and dumb—and therefore they are easy prey for insect pests.12 That is one reason why modern agriculture uses so many pesticides. Perhaps farmers can learn from the forests and breed a little more wildness back into their grain and potatoes so that they’ll be more talkative in the future. Communication”
― The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World
― The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World
“The Uses of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Thirst: Poems
a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Thirst: Poems
“The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.”
― Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
― Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
“We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.”
― Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
― Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
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