Wherever you go, there you are : mindfulness meditation in everyday life

But, meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.

break contact with what is deepest in ourselves and affords us perhaps our greatest opportunities for creativity, learning, and growing

lose touch with ourselves and with the full extent of our possibilities

forgetting momentarily that we are here

Of course, with continued practice and the right kind of firm yet gentle effort, calmness and mindfulness and equanimity develop and deepen on their own, out of your commitment to dwell in stillness and to observe without
reacting and without judging

Practice Does Not Mean Rehearsal

You Don't Have to Go Out

Mindfulness requires effort and discipline for the simple reason that the forces that work against our being mindful, namely, our habitual unawareness and automaticitv, are exceedingly tenacious

Only then can we accept the truth of this moment of our life, learn from it, and move on. Instead, it often seems as if we are preoccupied with the past, with what has already happened, or with a future that hasn't arrived yet. We

Fear that I'm not good enough, that bad things will happen, that good things won't last, that other people might hurt me, that I won't get my way, that only I know anything, that I'm the only one who doesn't know anything. We tend to see things through tinted glasses: through the lens of whether something is good for me or bad for me, or whether or not it conforms to my beliefs or philosophy. If it is good, I like it. If it is bad, I don't like it. If it is neither, I have no feelings about it one way or the other, and may hardly notice it at all.