You can’t just command yourself to stop feeling upset. But in any moment, you can change your breathing to make it deeper, slower, quieter, and more regular.
Category Archives: Spirituality
Remembering Ram Dass and ‘Be Here Now’
“Because the psychedelic agent is external to yourself, its use tends to subtly reinforce in you a feeling that you are not enough,” Ram Dass wrote. “Ultimately, of course, at the end of the path you come to realize that you have been Enough all the way along.”
Tony deMello on the Power of Awareness
“…one studies, one watches, without the desire to change what is…. The day you attain a posture like that, you will experience a miracle. You will change — effortlessly, correctly.”
Living With Ease: the Heart of the Tao te Ching
This sacred text describes wu wei — “non-doing,” a kind of behavior that is spontaneous, effortless, and selfless.
Talking to Lao Tzu About Time Management
Imagine that Lao Tzu came back to life and we tried to explain time management and goal setting to him. He might smirk and then say something like this.