To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.
Interpretation
Understanding your connection to all life helps foster a sense of wholeness and belonging.
This quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn emphasizes the importance of recognizing our interconnectedness with all forms of life and the essence of being itself. By acknowledging this relationship, we can experience a deeper understanding of our place within the larger tapestry of existence, allowing us to feel more whole and integrated with the universe.
In practice
This quote can be used in a meditation retreat to encourage participants to feel a sense of unity with nature.
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us.
Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
In Asian languages, the word for mind and the word for heart are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
What good is it to me that Mary gave birth to the son of God fourteen hundred years ago, and I do not also give birth to the Son of God in my time and in my culture? We are all meant to be mothers of God. God is always needing to be born.
All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.
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