In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. ... Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
For one day (or one day a week), refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you’ve been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.
Pema Chödron
"To honestly face the pain in our lives and the problems of the world, let's start by looking compassionately and honestly at our own minds. We can become intimate with the mind of hatred, the mind that polarizes, the mind that makes somebody "other" and bad and wrong. We come to know, unflinchingly, and with great kindness, the angry, unforgiving, hostile wolf. Over time, that part of ourselves becomes very familiar, but we no longer feed it. Instead, we can make the choice to nurture openness, intelligence, and warmth. This choice, and the attitudes and actions that follow from it, are like a medicine that has the potential to cure all suffering."
~ Pema Chodron
From: "Taking The Leap"
"Almost anything can be done if one proceeds slowly enough. Often we are discouraged by the enormity of a task or the length of a journey and become impatient with the difficulties we face. We lose faith in ourselves. Patience reminds us that what is in front of us is just this moment, just this step, just this breath."
~ Joseph Goldstein
Guilty....
"We can use breathing meditation to deepen our ability to dwell in deep states of calmness and concentrated awareness. Staying with the breath no matter what ultimately leads to deep experiences of calmness and awareness."
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living
Give yourself and the others in your life a break today. We see things not as they are. We see them as we are. When viewed through a filter of compassion, every scene changes.
"You are the masterpiece of your own life;
you are the Michelangelo of your experience.
The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts."
— Dr. Joe Vitale
"Within the last two decades a quiet revolution has been occurring in the legal profession. Largely ignored by the media, it began when various pioneers around the country got to the point that they just couldn't practice law in the typical polarizing, adversarial way any more. Innovators like Stu Webb, a family lawyer who lost his best friend when they were on opposite sides of a contentious divorce, created Collaborative Law and other new approaches and models to law. Judges like Peggy Hora and Len Edwards couldn't stand putting the same people behind bars time after time and transformed their courts into problem-solving courts that got to the root cause of the criminal behavior and supported defendants in becoming responsible citizens. Lawyers began to inquire into what it was to be a conscious lawyer, exploring meditation, well-being and balance."
Craig Zelizer
"What would it be like to be in a field of mindfulness? Could this involve paying attention so that I do not drift off into mental arenas that sap my vitality?"
Science of Mind Daily Guides
“The adversarial system is about polarizing people,” she says. “There’s been a lot of work done psychologically and socially showing that the adversarial system isn’t healthy for anybody.”
Kim Wright, Author of Lawyer as Peacemaker
"Do not measure yourself by how affluent, successful, or influential you are. Measure yourself by how content you are, by how present you can be in each moment."
~ Shyalpa Tenzin Rinpoche in Living Fully- Finding Joy in Every Breath.
"A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity."
~ The Buddha
Lawyers as Peacemakers — My little voice tells me when I am in alignment with my purpose and when something isn't quite right. It knows when I'm selling out and when I'm honoring my own values. My little voice guides me and helps me shape my
life. Kim Wright
How often each day would you have to say I don't want to be where I am? What does it feel like when you don't want to be where you are- the traffic jam, your place of work, the airport lounge, and the people you are with?
It has been said: wherever you go there you are. In other words you are always here. Why is it so hard to accept that?
Surrender is surrender to this moment not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
Eckhart Tolle Stillness Speaks
"The only way you can do anything of value is to have the effort come out of non-doing and let go of caring whether it will be of use or not."
Jon Kabat-Zinn Wherever you go there you are
It seems this would involve a great amount of trust.~ Katherine.
