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Marlane Ainsworth
Jan 23, 20211 min read
Have You Heard Silence?
Silence is everywhere. Even in an underground train tunnel with an express racing through, silence is still present.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Jan 16, 20213 min read
Buddha, Christ and St Francis
Set yourself free by noticing unconscious thought patterns.
That’s what Buddha, Christ, and St Francis of Assisi did.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Jan 9, 20212 min read
Are You Endangered?
Be like the bittern.
Do no harm.
Make your distinctive call.
Unfailingly unfold your being.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Jan 1, 20213 min read
Make Only One New Year's Resolution
Some thoughts are worth paying attention to. But most are worth ignoring. Sense the difference.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Dec 26, 20202 min read
3 Great Spiritual Questions
1. Who am I?
2. Why am I here?
3. How shall I live?
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Marlane Ainsworth
Dec 19, 20202 min read
Is Your Heart Enlarging?
Life is at work enlarging the boundaries of my heart.
Life is making room in my heart for compassion.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Dec 12, 20203 min read
Zen of Life and Writing
The Zen state is attainable through sinking deeply into consistent, daily effort, whether you pirouette, weld, build roads or drive buses.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Dec 5, 20202 min read
If You Forget About Perfection
Forgetting perfection, and accepting what is, opens a door between me and this moment. It connects me intimately with it. I am in the moment
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Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 28, 20202 min read
Create a Gap Year Every Day
Taking three conscious breaths gives you a mini holiday, a gap year, a sabbatical. It brings your day into focus.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 21, 20201 min read
This Moment is Vital
If you paid attention in daily life to the same degree that you do while you dance, how rich your life would be.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 14, 20202 min read
Where Can Truth Be Found?
The things you long for like freedom and peace, truth and true, abide in you. They are an integral part of your essential nature, available
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Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 7, 20203 min read
Are You Facing a Crucial Decision?
Being fully present while you make a decision connects you to universal intelligence, which is far wiser and all-knowing than the contents o
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 31, 20202 min read
How Can You Make an Impact?
But people need more than our words or thoughts. They need us. Our whole being. Our hands. Our feet. Our hearts.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 24, 20202 min read
The Secret People Need to Talk About
I don’t need to book another 10-Day Silent Retreat.
I just need to be still, look and listen. And keep my mouth shut.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 21, 20202 min read
How to Live Mindfully Today
The world needs a literal sun for life to be sustained, but the world also needs figurative suns — you and me — shining light and warmth.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 17, 20202 min read
Do You Have Quiet Eyes?
Howard Thurman, theologian, philosopher and civil rights leader, wrote in Meditations of the Heart: Look out on life with quiet eyes.
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 14, 20202 min read
Turn On Your Inner Light
Our inner light is our consciousness. It’s what we turn on when we stop living on autopilot. It spills out into the world through conscious
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 10, 20202 min read
What If?
What if I listen better in the next twenty-four hours?
What if I drop the illusion of who I think I am right now?
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 7, 20202 min read
Be Your Best Friend
Witness yourself on this earth, in this body, in this time, experiencing this unique situation. Give yourself the gift of being present wit
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Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 3, 20203 min read
Do You Get Lost in Thought?
It’s time I became aware of my thoughts, not carried away by them. It’s time I used them, rather than being abused by them.
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