Monday Mindfulness

Cultivating Strength, Joy, Calm & Resilience


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Just Be

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Happy is a frame of mind…Joy a state of being.


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Enough

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Know that your kindness, your happiness, and your goodness are what sparkles and shines in this world…and that IS enough.


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Hard Work

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Compassion, peace, and calm cannot be forced.  One cannot demand that someone be compassionate.  One cannot command peace and calm.  Rather, one must model it, live it, and know that the path to peace in ourselves and others is a steady process of balancing ego and replacing envy and judgment with love and inspiration.  And that is the hard work that we must individually choose to do.


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Dance in the Darkness

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No matter that anger laps at your feet,

No matter that fear and distrust appear to form walls around you,

No matter that hope feels smothered,

Spiral upwards, out of the ashes of perceived despair,

Fill the air with compassion.

As long as the flames of compassion dance,

We can know only peace and joy.


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The Greater Gift

 

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To know unconditionally is one thing.

To love unconditionally is another.


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Everyday Zen

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Spiraling upwards.

Energy lifting.

Feeling so blissful.

Finding my joy.

Sensing my balance.

Knowing my strength.

Freeing myself to be me.

 


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Doing my best…

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Doing my best to blend in, but realizing I am just destined to stand out.


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Dance

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Dance like sunlight on the grass…paint an ever-changing pattern that stirs delight and marvel…and cast your shadow without bending a single blade of grass.