5am Meditation Day 40- Simply Being

The Pleasure of Simply Being

"Whenever you try to exert control over the natural ebb and flow of life, you end up either frustrated or disappointed- because it can't be controlled. Whenever you apply effort to trying to relax and slow down, you produce the opposite effect. Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit- the pleasure of simply being."

Paul Wilson The Quiet

Wherever You Go There You Are

How often each day would you have to say I don't want to be where I am? What does it feel like when you don't want to be where you are- the traffic jam, your place of work, the airport lounge, and the people you are with?

It has been said: wherever you go there you are. In other words you are always here. Why is it so hard to accept that?

Surrender is surrender to this moment not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks

http://www.learning-modern-meditation.com/meditation-quotes.html

5am Meditation Day 33- Twitter Wisdom from the Dalai Lama and Eckhart Tolle

Earlier today the Dalai Lama tweeted:

In order to use human intelligence properly our mind should be calm.

Eckhart Tolle's last tweet:

Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges.

5am Meditation Day 28- Change

Change is the essence of life.

Be willing to surrender what you are

for what you could become.

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