Mindfulness Matters. Today

Please find this week's, Mindful Monday Newsletter from Mindfulness Matters. Today. 9th September 2024. A hand-picked selection of stories from the past week. Hope you enjoy it. Stories reference – why is your child learning mindfulness at school, the friendship paradox, mindfulness and relationships, missing out on Oasis tickets, nature being better than medication, the ‘two-shot’ in filmmaking, and Taylor Swift. I’d be keen to talk about anything to do with mindfulness and well-being. My training areas of delivery include – introductory sessions, stress management, resilience through mindfulness, mindfulness and creativity, and mindful leadership. #mindfulness #meditation #nature #oasis #conference #travel #creativity #art #taylorswift https://lnkd.in/enPX2--x

The law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries. --Leo Tolstoy <https://lnkd.in/eU4BXHrt>

Our country faces unprecedented challenges today. They cannot be resolved with half-steps or compromises. There is not a middle ground between the insatiable greed of uber-capitalism and a fair deal for the working class. There is not a middle ground as to whether or not we save the planet. There is not a middle ground about whether or not we preserve our democracy and remain a society based on equal protection for all. --Bernie Sanders <https://lnkd.in/eHF37q-R>

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. --Taylor Caldwell <https://lnkd.in/erj2T353>

Women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex. --Frances Wright <https://lnkd.in/ev9vDd4B>

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. But life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. Every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. --Anthony de Mello <https://lnkd.in/efMsRBv6>