Here’s a breakdown of what your bad lifestyle choices might be costing you (in terms of money spent and health impacts made). Source: Here’s How Much Bad Habits Can Cost You Per Year
Here’s How Much Bad Habits Can Cost You Per Year
How to Be Your Own Best Friend
Friendship can sometimes feel fraught. But if you play your cards right, there’s at least one friend who will always have your back. Source: How to Be Your Own Best Friend – Mindful
Wishing you an auspicious Saka Dawa!!
“During this month, the merits of good deeds are said to be multiplied one hundred million times.”
Happy Saka Dawa!
Saka Dawa is the most important festival in the Tibetan Buddhist world and commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana (passing) of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni.
During this month, the merits of good deeds are said to be multiplied one hundred million times. So, if we just commit to avoiding negative thoughts for this month and decide to engage in positive activities, even as simple as doing something nice, Saka Dawarepresents an excellent occasion to start getting inspired in both beginning and keeping our habits!
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
“If I pick up my smartphone and I develop a relationship with people I’ll never meet — influencers and celebrities — by watching videos, that diminishes me. But if I pick up my smartphone and I call my daughter or FaceTime her, that activates love and relationship. Basically, it’s using the thing to more deeply engage with the world rather than to retreat from my investment in the world.”
The beautiful thing in some ways about the smartphone, for example, is that my robotic vacuum will never do anything but vacuum instead of me. But my smartphone can be an instrument in that I can decide every time I pick it up whether I’m going to use it in a way that actually develops my heart, soul, mind and strength that is subordinate to and for the purposes of love.
If I pick up my smartphone and I develop a relationship with people I’ll never meet — influencers and celebrities — by watching videos, that diminishes me. But if I pick up my smartphone and I call my daughter or FaceTime her, that activates love and relationship. Basically, it’s using the thing to more deeply engage with the world rather than to retreat from my investment in the world.
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Thanks, Facebook!
Just like that with no explanation. Maybe it was this post about climate change?
Wouldn’t it be nice?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn’t have to wait so long
And wouldn’t it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it’s gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
After having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
But happy times together we’ve been spending
I wish that every kiss was never-ending
Oh, wouldn’t it be nice?
Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray, it might come true…
Achieve your purpose
To set yourself free to achieve your true purpose, become aware of who you really are, what you really want, why you do things the way you do them.
Happy Pride Month 🌈
June is LGBTQIA Pride Month, let’s celebrate!!
Let this be a month that celebrates and fosters inclusion, love, and respect!
Why I Don’t Regret That I Didn’t Walk Away from My Relationship Sooner
When the pain of staying was greater than the fear of leaving, it was time to walk away. Here’s why I don’t regret staying as long as I did. Source: Why I Don’t Regret That I Didn’t Walk Away from My Relationship Sooner – Tiny Buddha
Shocks, Beatings, Mock Executions: Inside Kherson’s Detention Centers
How long will we stand by?
Improve yourself
Another good question…
One of the first goals we should aim at is to improve ourselves by committing to becoming aware of what limits us and removing it.
Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call
David Kanigan shares…
I don’t know about you Coach. But I hope that either all of us or none of us are judged by the actions of our weakest moments, but rather by the strength we show when and if we’re ever given a second chance.
109 years expressed as an operating code of life via @davidkanigan
Among Charlie’s things after he was gone, his family found a single sheet of notepaper, on which Charlie had boiled 109 years into an operating code of life. Go to the Source: a single sheet of notepaper, on which Charlie had boiled 109 years into an operating code of life
Think About Your Death and Live Better
Contemplating your mortality might sound morbid, but it’s actually a key to happiness. Source: Think About Your Death and Live Better
Learning
Do your best!
I have always believed that learning more was a mission as I am sure that the more I will know, the better I will be able to help, serve, and take care of those I follow and support.
Learning is an activity that gives impressive results when done with attention and commitment. And the positive thing is that we can learn from everyone and everything, every single moment of our lives.
Over the years, I have developed a way to learn better, to foster curiosity, interest, commitment, motivation, and purpose.
Learning can be the key to whatever we want and hope to achieve. It’s how we set ourselves free from what limits us, allowing us to help other people.
Learning is caring.
What things do Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy have in common?
Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy are two of the world’s oldest religions, and they share a number of similarities. Here are a few of the things that Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy have in common:
- A focus on the individual: Both Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy emphasize the importance of individual spiritual development. In Buddhism, this is achieved through the practice of meditation and mindfulness, while in Greek Orthodoxy, it is achieved through prayer, fasting, and good works.
- A belief in karma: Both Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy believe in the law of karma, which states that every action has a reaction. This belief encourages people to live moral lives and to avoid doing harm to others.
- A focus on compassion: Both Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy emphasize the importance of compassion for others. This compassion is expressed in both religions through acts of charity and kindness.
- A belief in the afterlife: Both Buddhism and Greek Orthodoxy believe in an afterlife, although they have different views on what happens after death. In Buddhism, the goal is to achieve nirvana, which is a state of perfect peace and enlightenment. In Greek Orthodoxy, the goal is to be reunited with God in heaven.
Viktor Frankl: Greatest Quotes
Viktor Frankl, born on the 26th of March 1905 in Vienna, was an Austrian born neurologist, psychiatrist and philosopher. Frankl founded a school of thought called logotherapy, proposing that a search for meaning is the ultimate purpose in a person’s life. Through meaning we have direction and purpose. Go to the source to learn more: Viktor Frankl: Greatest Quotes
Focus on what you can change
This is a truth…
One useless activity that drains your energy is worrying about things you do not have control over. Focus on the ones you can change, to grow.
How I Learned to Let Go of Attachment to Things I Want
When I’m caught in the trap of attachment, all I see is my one object of desire. Here’s how I learned to let go. Go to the Source: How I Learned to Let Go of Attachment to Things I Want – Tiny Buddha
U2 – Live Aid; Fourteen Year-Old Reaction. Her face says it all!
Another post for my dear, sweet sister Lisa — lover of all things U2!
Bright, shiny objects! 
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