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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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"Stress and fear are not your enemy. They are friends who are asking you to pause."  ~  Everyday Mindfulness

"What we practice becomes habit. A Chinese Buddhist text describes it this way: 'From intention springs the deed, from the deed springs the habits. From the habits grow the character, from character develops destiny.'"

— Jack Kornfield

"It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so – your resistance is."

— Eckhart Tolle

"A person who is happy is not happy because everything is right in his life, he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right.” — Sundar Pichai, Google Inc. CEO

"Being is prior to existence. Existence is form, content, “what happens.” Existence is the foreground of life; Being is the background, as it were."  ~  Eckhart Tolle

"Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think "I Am" and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the I Am."
— Eckhart Tolle

"It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!!"

— Fred Rogers

Yesterday's thoughts were focused on the importance of 'Being' first as a ground for 'Doing.' But of course, it is easy to find 'wise-sounding' thoughts that appear to contradict. For instance, quotes from the Dalai Lama often have a 'Fake it until you make it' sense to them. For instance:

"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”

And,

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Do we Act out of Being or Become out of Acting?

To Be, or to Do?

Nobler to Stay, or to Act?

That is the Question.

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."  -  Bob Marley

"Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind, and rain, the snow and moon."  -  Ikkyu

"Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way."
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

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