#FeelingGood
by
#Being #InHarmony
with
#Life #Rhythms
with
#IntentionalAwareness
with
#Habits
of
#Balance(ing)
slow and fast
being and becoming
rest and action
consolidation and growth
empty and full
satisfaction and restlessness
consuming and producing
self care and caring for others
inner and outer
heart and head
individual and collective
narrow and wide
silence and sound-speech
yin and yang
“When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things as they are with him, and accept them. This is how we communicate with each other. Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time. For now, you don't interrupt. You don't argue. If you do, he loses his chance. You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. One hour like that can bring transformation and healing. " - Thich Nhat Hanh
above quote from blog below (accessed 6 June 2021)
http://cultureofempathy.com/references/Experts/Thich-Nhat-Hanh.htm
"There is courage in pure listening. We practice listening with an open heart, and with the intention only to understand. We listen without defensiveness, and without the need to fix, instruct, or change the other person. We mindfully choose silence over speech, and resist saying the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
above quote from blog below (accessed 6 June 2021)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/sg/blog/the-dance-connection/201004/living-courageously-heres-how
Jon Kabat-Zinn Defines Mindfulness (YouTube)
Jon Kabat-Zinn: Listening is an Act of Love (YouTube)
"Mindfulness Ιn Everyday Life" Jon Kabat Zinn with Oprah Winfrey (YouTube)
Body Language of Leaders - What You Can Learn From the Best (YouTube)
How to Start a Speech (YouTube)
“Unhappy is he who depends on success to be happy,” - Alex Dias Ribeiro, former Formula 1 driver. “For such a person, the end of a successful career is the end of the line. His destiny is to die of bitterness or to search for more success in other careers and to go on living from success to success until he falls dead. In this case, there will not be life after success.” quoted in article ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy: The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful." by Arthur C. Brooks in The Atlantic, accessed on 16 September 2021, available on link below
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/why-success-wont-make-you-happy/614731/
https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/09/sustainable-purposeful-living.html
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Find the journey's end in every step." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot
"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started." - T. S. Eliot
". . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . ." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” - Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam
“First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.” - Stephanie Butland, Lost For Words
"Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different." - Sushmita Sen
"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - Greg Anderson
"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination." - Carl Rogers
"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe
"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." - Henry Miller
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