A Mindful Life

You can see a friend even with your eyes shut, when you’ve made the skin a window for spiritual ideas. –Rumi (Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski)

A wedding is a formal public celebration of commitment. Unfortunately, many couples get caught up in the idea of the wedding as an end in itself and don’t focus on what follows: marriage, a new beginning. When this is combined with significant debt from the celebration, the result is often discontent. From This is London: [...]

I posted tips on managing depression awhile back, and Chad gave his perspective on them. I got to thinking that perhaps the list — which I inherited — would benefit from some elaboration.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. –Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) I have no home but me. –Anne Truitt, Daybook (1982)

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. –Christina Baldwin, Life’s Companion (1990)

I speak of mindfulness on this blog, yet you might wonder what it is, exactly. The article below describes in basic terms what is and is not mindful behavior. Something to remember, as well, is that it is a habit, and it takes time to learn. If you try to increase mindfulness and don’t do [...]

These visual designs play with our perception. I’ve always been fascinated with the interaction between the eyes and mind. They’re lots of fun to stare at, but they might make you dizzy! (via David)

Next week’s Meetup, as I recall, is going to be at Mozart’s. At the last meeting, we identified locations for the next four months, and I wrote them down someplace. As soon as I find the list, I’ll post them too. The reason we’re breaking from the official Meetup locations is that they are often [...]

A violent act pierces the atmosphere, leaving a hole through which the cold, damp draft of its memory blows forever. –Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Trick of the Eye (1992)

Rx Depot, a company that provides mail-order prescription service from Canadian pharmacies to U.S. residents, will be forced to cease doing business on September 11. Rx Depot ordered to close stores By THERESA AGOVINO The Associated Press MIAMI – The Justice Department has ordered Rx Depot to close up shop, as the Bush administration is [...]