Meditation

Thought pieces, prayers, and meditations.

may you have ease – a meditation

  May you be free of danger. May you have mental happiness. May you have physical happiness. May you have ease of well-being. Buddhist Metta meditation I have often heard the suggestion to pray for a person I am angry at or who I resent, as a means of reaching forgiveness and serenity. I have tried…

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future – a meditation

  The Earth was made round so that we could not see what lies ahead of us. – R. Keith Gill It is so often that I find myself concentrating very hard on developing a sixth sense with which I would be able to know the future before it happens. I am so often afraid…

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be where your feet are – a meditation

        Be where your feet are.       A friend died suddenly, a few days ago. At his memorial service, his sister said these words to us. “Be where your feet are.” She asked us to put our feet on the ground, and to just breathe for a moment or two….

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is – a meditation

  “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ―Rumi My ego likes whisper in my ear judgments every second – “this is good, this is bad.” Before recovery, my ego was…

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judgment – a meditation

  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent -Eleanor Roosevelt Before recovery, when others judged me, I would often get defensive and angry with them and then feel shame about myself. I remember reading this quote before recovery, too. I thought “well, I guess even Eleanor Roosevelt can be wrong.” The truth…

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