Mindful Matter
An experiment.
Today we want to try an experiment. The last two days, we talked a lot about gratitude. Today, we want to take action. Thank someone for something you never thanked them for before. Express gratitude for what they did, and share how that action had an impact on you. You can even simply thank them for who they are and what they bring to the world. If the thought of randomly contacting this person out of the blue with a message of gratitude makes you
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Grateful in every moment.
Recently we shared this idea from Brother David Steindl-Rast idea: “So it is not happiness that makes us grateful. It's gratefulness that makes us happy.” - Brother David Steindl-Rast In his famous TED Talk, continues... “Does that mean that we can be grateful for everything? Certainly not. We cannot be grateful for violence, for war, for oppression, for exploitation. On the personal level, we cannot be grateful for the loss of a friend, for unfaithfulness, for bereavement. But I didn't say we can be grateful for everything. I said we can be grateful in every given moment…” A great distinction. It is not that we need to be grateful for everything. But every single moment has something that we can give thanks for, if we open ourselves up to it. Our breath — which reminds us that we have the opportunity to be here and be present — is a perfect example. Practice gratitude with every breath. Mike and Dave RadparvarCo-Founders, Holstee
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Almost Everything I Learned About Resilience Came from The Simpsons
Keith Lyons, Author and Writing Mentor
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Fear is not real.
Last night, I went to my wife’s friend’s girlfriend’s birthday celebration. I was a little anxious about going. It can take me a while to feel like myself around new people, and I often find it hard to connect with people during brief encounters at parties. However, I’m thrilled I went because I met Raymond. He was one of the first people
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It's all related.
"Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be..." In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., was sentenced to time in a Birmingham, Alabama, jail for participating in non-violent civil rights demonstrations. From the confines of his cell, he wrote these
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