pickI really enjoyed this book on meditation and mindfulness. It was an easy read and easy to understand. It felt like talking to a friend, very comfortable and open. With the slew of meditation books out there, this would be a great pick for beginners and experts alike. I am really looking forward to reading more of her work. 📸: sake that I sipped mindfully with my sister 👯♀️
”If my goal is happiness, I need to recognize the feeling ‘I‘m not heading in the right direction,‘ so I can initiate some corrective.”
“May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend.”
“I thought about how everyone carries their family and their work and the whole world around with them all the time and that saying ‘are you all right?‘ is like throwing someone a rescue rope that says, ‘Want to connect?‘ “
“It‘s incredibly easy to become confused. The mind becomes overwhelmed— by a challenge or its impulsive response to challenge—and becomes confused, misreads what‘s happening, and frightens itself.”
“And the earth 🌏 itself greening and dying and greening and dying endlessly, exactly on schedule”
“You are reminding your mind, diligently, to care—which is what it does naturally.”
“We can‘t bless and simultaneously be imagining retribution and revenge.”
“Being alive is a mysterious and precarious thing. That life is happening at all— however it is happening— is a miracle. You never really know what the next minute is going to bring, so living fully in this moment is the only constantly reappearing option for happiness.”
“Replaying upsetting experiences keeps the mind inflamed. Soothing the mind by giving the argument a rest is a better idea.”
“What I do matters, but I am not in charge.”
Can I read it in two days before it is due??? We shall see...
pickI'm reading this tonight! Thanks to my lovely #BookSwap partner from #ChristmasBookSwap!!!
What are you reading tonight?
pick@Bibliogeekery THANK YOU so much. I woke up to this. Absolutely looking forward to reading these two books, will be sipping tea while reading these. Love the miniature notebook and bookish ornament/badge which I'll cherish for years to come #SecretSantaGoesPostal
Here are my #textonlycovers (I skipped my husband's giant Philosophy textbook collection 😜). Funny how they tend to be mostly self-help/non-fiction! Except for Heart Sick, of course. 💀 #booktober
Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life | 
