How to Make Mindfulness a Habit

By: http://www.raptitude.com

When you sit back and reminisce about your life, it’s almost a given that the most enjoyable and memorable moments are the ones in which you were completely present. Do you look back with fondness all the times you spent thinking about work while you drove home, or pondered dinner while you wheeled down the frozen aisle? Unfortunately most of life passes that way for most of us. We’re in one place doing one thing, thinking of things we aren’t doing and places we aren’t at. The bottom line of almost all self-help, spiritual, or religious literature is that our ability to be happy is determined by our ability to stay in the present moment. The Buddhists, the Toltecs, the Bible, Eckhart Tolle, Ram Dass, Emerson, Thoreau — anyone at all who is known for having found a path to consistent, recurring joy — cites staying present as the essential teaching. Only when we’re present do we see beauty, enjoy gratitude, and experience happiness. It’s the moments we’re present for that make life good, so it only stands to reason that being present is something we’d do well to get better at.

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Self-Sustaining.

I don't know if it's the problem or the answer that I fall in love with everything. Little parts and little faces. Using them to fill up my whole body with these bright pieces and I'm trying to let go. Not that I don't think you should fall in love, but I don't want that addiction. I want to have it all inside of me and stand as an independent yet interconnected being. Like feeling the sunshine and radiating it back to the whole world. Loving it and recognizing the beauty but having it in me. I'm trying to remember that when I miss you. Because I already miss you. And I don't need that. I want to focus on what's in front of me through every moment. And let that be enough. Their telling me attachment is the cause of pain. To people, to things, to outcomes.

I just want to be a self-sustaining source of energy.

But I still love you.

Le Monde

Men of Earth

Men of Earth,

I need all this time alone to think. And sometimes it's of love and running down dialogues that should be resolved by communication and not over-analization but sometimes it's different. Sometimes it's these fierce ideas of over-priced education, social debt, dangerously low standards of food, the poor, despicable minimum wages, materialism, a health care system that lets people die and suffer, and a lack of humanity driven by mass socio-economic control. Whirling thoughts of injustice and low-moral that could bring tears but rises passionate will. This passionate need to scream to the skies of the choices. The choice of demanding a social construct that takes care of it's people and works for their mental and physical evolution instead of a system structured around modern feudalism and a draining exaggerated pyramid system. A culture that does not work towards the betterment of all and the rising quality of men on earth is a false and decrepit one. We must work together for each other.