The key to staying cool, calm and collected is to have little islands in your day, regular little points of detachment from the world where you completely come away from what you are involved in. Spreading these times throughout your day when you stop and reconnect is the key to not losing your peace and fully enjoying
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I just came back from three months at the Bright Path Ishaya retreat in Spain. Waking up this morning in my little cottage in the UK is different, but wonderful. There was a real sense of peace and serenity and aliveness on the mountain there in Spain. But you know what? There is here in North Yorkshire too.
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“When someone seeks, then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller The result of meditation is the ability to not attach to the stuff in your head. It is the ability to be mentally fit, fluid and free. You develop the ability to purely
The overwhelming difficulty so many have with meditation is that they believe they need to empty their minds. Meditation becomes confused with having an empty head, no thoughts, complete silence in the skull. Rejoice! For I am to tell you this is not necessary. You can have the busiest mind in the world and still
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A wise man once said that the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. If that is the case, and I believe it is, fear isn’t the opposite of love either. Fear is actually more closely related to love than you know.
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“The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference” – Steven Pressfield Indifference is a very subtle beast, yet once fallen into leads a long way down a grey and winding path indeed. Like a sleepwalker wandering deeper and deeper into the forest, life becomes lost not through deliberate choice but through not paying attention.
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I saw an article the other day – it’s from a few years back, but it’s still really fresh. The author interviewed elderly people on their death beds as to their regrets. Although its about people who are dying, it is really advice for people who are living.
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How do you live your life? Here’s part two of Arjuna’s guide to a rich and fulfilled life:
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Life doesn’t come with an instruction book. You have to work out for yourself what works. For what its worth, and for your entertainment and edification, here’s how I think life’s guide book should go:
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