Lovewins: June 2023

A part of maturity is learning to love some people from a distance, to keep their well-being in your prayers but to take a path away from them. - @Nomoreus

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Missing White Woman Syndrome: The Media Bias Towards Missing People of Color

Best 5 Stoic principles to adopt.
1 )Acceptance:
Embrace what you can't control; focus your energy on what you can.
2 )Virtue:
Prioritize moral excellence, integrity, and kindness in all your actions.
3) Impermanence:
Recognise that change is inevitable; cherish the present moment without attachment.
4 )Inner Peace:
Master your emotions; respond to challenges
with calmness, equanimity, and reason.
5) Gratitude:
Appreciate life's blessings, big and small; find joy in the simplest of moments.

“We can’t hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go.” - Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance"

The power of mindfulness is the power to examine those self-identification and their consequences and the power to examine the views and perspectives we adopt so reflexively and automatically and then proceed to think are us. - Jon Kabat- Zinn

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. - Echkhart Tolle

Let silence take you to the core of life. - Rumi

"Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower." - John Harrigan

"Your concentrated and stable awareness serves as a crucible in which negative mental states can be contained and then transmuted." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Encouraging someone to be entirely themselves is the loudnest way to love them. - unknown

When you arise in the morning think, of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to live, then make that day count. - Steve Miaraboli

Release what no longer serves you and make room for beautiful small things. - Mary Davis

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The cosmos is filled with precious gems,
I want to offer a handful of them
to you this morning,
Each moment you are alive is a gem.
Shining through and containing.
Earth and sky,
Water and clouds.

IT needs you to breathe gently
For the miracles to be displayed.
Suddenly you hear the birds singing
The pines chanting.
See the flowers blooming.
The blue sky.
The white clouds.
The smile.
And the marvelous look
Of your beloved. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The invitation is to throw yourself into the dance, whether the music is always of your choosing or not, as if it were both an experiment and and adventure. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Today I choose:
Calm over chaos
Serenity over stress
Peace over perfection
Grace over grit
Faith over fear. - Mary Davis

Not causing harm (to oneself or others), practicing what is good and wholesome (for oneself and others), and disciplining one's mind in order to accomplish the first two activiities are Buddhism in a nutshell. - Jan Willis

Ripples, when you create a difference in someone's life, you not only impact their life, you impact everyone influenced by then throughout their entire lifetime. No act is ever too small. One by one, this is how to make an ocean rise. - Danielle Doby