Eric's Letters

60 Posts

Take the time to appreciate the beauty around you and declare victory no matter what happens.

Beginning again is a powerful and elusive piece of advice that involves consciously deciding to drop the past and enter the present moment.

Waking ourselves from the multitasking trance is the best way to focus on what truly matters.

Joseph Goldstein advises to act on generous impulses immediately instead of putting them off. This reduces suffering and brings joy.

Thoughts can be like uninvited guests, but we don't have to entertain them or offer them tea. We can learn to step off the thought ride.

The experience of being in conscious contact with reality as it actually is can be a key to the freedom you seek.

It helps to pay attention to what we're hearing because it seems like our ears need some TLC.

We can simply accept what is, and we can change what is. Simultaneously.

Maybe what we're really after is the art of discovering that we can be fulfilled before the next thing happens, not because it happened.

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