A Mindful Life

When I am sick, my head feels as though it is jammed full of cotton — tight but soft inside. My thoughts ooze and slosh around. Every now and then I shake the earth with a sneeze — I never learned to explode daintily — and attempt to return my head to normalcy… [...]

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
–Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The eyes are given to see;
the soul to see further.
–Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid `Inayat Khan
From: A Meditation Theme for Each Day
Selected and arranged by Hazrat Pir Vilayat `Inayat Khan

Apparently this is a rapidly growing problem. Although it doesn’t actually put one at risk of death, such behavior can imperil a person in other ways.
Drunk dialing has grown so rampant now that, just as abuses of cellphones prompted a new code of ethics for public conversations and new laws for road travel, [...]

There is an incisive post about the “subversive” SpongBob Squarepants video and the reaction from the Focus on the Family people at Light. I had created a short post responding to the news when it first broke.

This mime demonstrates
so well the vivid nature
of being silent.

“Nothing To Say” by Rachel Marlow ©2003 / ephotograph

Heather tells a great story. Below is just the beginning:
A couple days ago I was coming home from the grocery store when I stopped at a four-way intersection. The guy headed in my direction ran the stop sign, and the woman to my right whose turn it was to go entered the middle of the [...]

From the ever-wise Tish:
Tolerance can generate an atmosphere of moral relativism and deference to the point where opinion is almost thought of as pathology. Benefit of the doubt is more about taking a position not as a negation of another point of view but as an expression of a personal integrity.
–Fatshadow

I have been completely engulfed by my new job as an academic coach and supervisor. The job is an intense learning experience; it’s challenging all my conceptions of control and chaos. I like some of it, and some parts I dislike intensely. This is a good sign.
What this means, though, [...]

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
–Phillips Brooks