manifesto for a simple life...

What would you add to this list?

breathing with awareness is needful...

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"Sometimes, we just need
to hear ourselves breathe."
~ Jeff Foster

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Meditation Cushion. 

 Machine stitched reeds

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 "People think happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, 

"something complicated and hard to get. 

Yet, what little things can make it up; 

a place of shelter when it rains - 

a cup of strong hot coffee when you’re blue; 

for a man, a cigarette for contentment; 

a book to read when you’re alone -

 just to be with someone you love. 

Those things make happiness."
~ Betty Smith
 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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beyond expectations and disappointments...

Suffering, beyond physical and emotional pain, 

can be caused by our attachment to expectations.  

"When we are disappointed by a pleasure 

which we have been expecting and which comes, 

the disappointment is because we were expecting the future, 

and as soon as it is there it is present. 

We want the future to be there without ceasing to be future. 

This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure."

~Simone Weil (1909-1943)

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a thich in time...

"Breathe in deeply

 to bring your mind 

home to your body."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

  BREATHE

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breathe...

Breath...

by Hengki Koentjoro

 

 

(via facebook)

Breathe and Radiate! Light up your life!

Crimson Circle 

(via facebook)

‎"When you breathe, you tend to radiate. It’s taken years of the breathing, of getting you into it – some of you have really resisted it – but when you breathe, you start to radiate. You start to light up, and that’s the reason most of you stopped breathing, because initially, yes, it’s intense. Initially, it hurts. Initially, it brings up your crap, your makyo. It puts the makyo right in your face, so you say, “Oh, this breathing stuff is so stupid. I’m going to go find a lot of books and workshops and complex things and pretend that, you know, there’s puzzle parts that I have to put together. I’m not going to do this stupid breathing. That’s so easy. How could it be effective? I’m going to go out and suffer. I’m going to pay big bucks for enlightenment. I’m going to find a guru. Hell, I’m going to find an alien guru and pay big bucks to learn.” So people stop breathing, because it hurts to light up.

You’re learning … you’re doing, I should say. You’re experiencing. You take that deep breath and realize it doesn’t have to be difficult. It really doesn’t. And you don’t have to process your way out of wherever you were, wherever you are. You don’t have to process your way out. Amazing. Brilliant." (feckin' brilliant)

 

Adamus
The [NEXT] Series

SHOUD 11: "Spiral Experience"

June 4, 2011

You don't need one to breathe...or do you? :-)