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michelle-matthews-calloway's picture
Jan.22.2013
I'm always on the look out for a great quote. I saw a wonderful one yesterday (there was no attribute; else I would cite it). The quote said this: "Don't waste your precious energy on gossip, energy vampires, issues of the past, negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead, invest your...
jessica-barksdale-inclan's picture
May.25.2010
I tend to not think about the unfairness of things as they happen--no, I think about them later, when the event is past and I can do nothing about it.  Instead of grappling with the situation and shaping it and working it, I sit in some room (like the one I'm in now) and rue the day or mull over...
pavel-somov's picture
Mar.31.2009
When young, the mind keeps on asking "What is this?" Is this question a moment of learning or... the beginning of blindness? When the mind asks "What is this?" it pulls together several incoming streams of sensory feedback into a perceived - but still nameless - whole. And as...
pat-montandon's picture
Jan.11.2009
                Mindful Exercise Mist was rising off Stowe Lake in smoky tendrils as I began an early morning walk in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Patterns of sunlight foretold the advent of a beautiful day as it filigreed through pines onto the hard packed earth of the path. Ducks and mean...