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              I am starting a new thread here mainly for purposes of my own catharsis. It is my intention, at least at this point, to make regular contributions. Of course, if anyone else has anything to add, they are more than welcome. If you have any input, please contribute.

              Over a year ago I decided to deal head-on with my self-diagnosed adult attention disorder, (ADD). The inability to stay focused was becoming too stressful. I found myself sitting around watching the clock tick, yet I couldn’t keep “on task” with any project I started. Nothing was getting done and just starting something was becoming depressing.

              The smart thing to do was probably to get professional help, so instead I decided to try to heal myself, at least as a first try. Cognitive therapy and pharmaceuticals (UGH) might be the approved way to go but I decided to try meditation first.

              18 months and countless self-help books later, I still can’t bring myself to a regular, formal meditation program. But, along the way, I discovered informal mindfulness. Yes, I know it is the “Fad” right now. It is hard to navigate modern social trends without “tripping over” somebody extolling the benefits of mindfulness.

              Let me add my voice to the chorus.

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"What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves, that is all."  ~  Shunryu Suzuki

I just realized that this is the six month anniversary of this thread. I wondered at the start how long I would stay dedicated but it has become something I look forward to as I get up every day. My only problem has been avoiding repeating myself. There are only a few themes to this subject, so they will have to repeat. But forgive me if at some point I start recycling quotes. I hope these daily meditations have had some meaning to anybody with the patience to look at them but as I stated at the beginning, this is for my own catharsis.  "My happiness depends on me. So, you're off the hook."  ~  Abraham Hicks

"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms."  ~  Thich Nhat Hanh

The author of the above quote is one of the largest inspirations in my life today. He is the beautiful spirit whose writings first turned me on to mindfulness a little more than two years ago. I learned today that he is in poor health and has returned to his homeland, Viet Nam, to await his final days. The world is losing one of its biggest advocates for a peaceful existence. We need to pick up his mantle in these trying times.

http://time.com/5511729/monk-mindfulness-art-of-dying/?platform=hoo...

"It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature. but the memory of a well-spent life never dies."  `  Cicero

"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."  ~  John Quincy Adams

"Like a cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can you learn wisdom unless you first empty your cup?"  ~  Nyogen Senzaki

"Don't wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change"  ~  Barbara Baron

WILL ROGERS SAYS ''The minute a thing is long and complicated it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made'em short. They may not always be kept, but they can be understood.'' - March 17, 1935

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers that you have built against it."  ~ Rumi

Of course the same could be said about any desirable quality such as happiness, knowledge, meaning, authenticity, etc. But how do I go about identifying and nullifying these barriers? Mindfulness can be that tool, but not if I go about it the old way where I assume certain states to be desirable and work hard to do what is necessary to achieve these goals.

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