#the miracle of mindfulness

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

(Art: Painting by Anna Ancher)

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If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash the dishes.” What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life. 

~Thich Nhat Hanh

(Book: The Miracle of Mindfulness)

[Philo Thoughts]

[nochilleftb3hine]

"We are both the mind and the observer of the mind. Therefore, chasing away or dwelling on any thought isn't the important thing. The important thing is to be aware of the thought. This observation is not an objectification of the mind: it does not establish distinction between subject and object. Mind does not grab onto mind; mind does not push mind away. Mind can only observe itself."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

[symphonyoflovenet]

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness

[garfrigerator]

"kill them with kindness" wrong. fall inside a hole you couldn't see 🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳🕳

[lineffability]

"apparently if we do a miracle together it all works a bit too well" listen LISTEN i think this is why. i think the magnitude and power of that miracle they did together is what alerted the metatron and why he has come to separate them by all means, because they have not realized yet quite how powerful they are together and what that could mean!! this is why, i think???? they used to do each other's miracles and temptations for each other, but never with, and that could change everythign and could get in the way of certain Ineffable Plans (that i don't think are necessarily God's, looking at you villain metatrash)

[melonsharks]

i went. insane. LOOK. i know a lot of people realllyyyy wanted crowley to be the wedding dress designer LOOK I KNOW AND ITS OK u can make ur own au i promise but in MY WORLD. you need to understand me.

crowley owning a vineyard is personal to me. he is THE snake in the garden of eden, tempting is his JOB ok. he makes wines aziraphale indulges in, aziraphale designs dresses with crowley in mind. do you hear me. are you listening to me. i have everything from the second they meet mapped out OK i know what im talking about. listen to my delusions, boy.

[freaky-dan]

tally hall blinkies

[toothpastewolf]

"kill them with kindness" wrong. condemn him to the infirmary 🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥🏥

[astrhae]

Let there be matter, let there be gravity, let there be everything from pages 11 to 3,000,602 inclusive... (Funny if I did the good thing and you did the bad one, eh?)

GOOD OMENS SEASON 2 + the seven virtues and the seven sins

[bone-glue]

[hamable]

FHJY SPOILERS Episode 9 Vulture Clash:

We’re laughing and having a good time with fantasy high (jk were all stressed but we love it anyways) but I can’t stop thinking of the image of Kristen finding her teacher murdered in the forest, her attacker having made a point to banish her soul after the fact so she can’t be revived, in effect never allowing her to truly rest. The image of how upon inspecting closer, these kids find the body of their former peer, believed missing for months, left callously to rot next to the first. The image of Kristen reaching out to her Goddess of Doubt for something. Anything. To save, to spare her soul, to relieve the ground they lie on of whatever was made to taint it, and she gets nothing. Kristen haunted by the reminder, the reminder Yolonda gave her, that Kristen has to perform the miracles Cassandra cannot. Kristen unable to do anything else but start weeping.

Riz’s investigation revealing that multiple assailants killed Lucy. That the blunt force that killed Yolonda was so hard that the carbon in her blood pressurized into diamonds. Fabian says they need to get an adult. Can they please just get an adult.

[overwhelming-cacophony]

Papers, Please.

...

You're not bringing that in.

[the-toybox-sys]

[catboy-miku]

Falling inside a hole you couldn't see all by yourself, handsome?

[zuzu-draws]

The one time Kise asked(dragged) Aomine to come to a photoshoot

+Bonus (The Aftermath):

[sunlight-latte]

reject