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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

Marlane Ainsworth
Dec 5, 20202 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 28, 20202 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 21, 20201 min read
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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

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 14, 20202 min read
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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

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 7, 20203 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 31, 20202 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 24, 20202 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 21, 20202 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 17, 20202 min read
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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

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 14, 20202 min read
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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?

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 10, 20202 min read
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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

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 7, 20202 min read
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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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 3, 20203 min read
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The Listening Tree
The tree taught that lfe is full of happenings. Some seem sad and some happy. But they are just happenings running alongside each other.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 30, 20202 min read
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The Wisdom of Clouds
Let’s be like clouds. Come as a response. Respond to what it. And, as a final physical response, go peacefully.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 26, 20203 min read
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Heroes Are Always Interrupted
Interruptions highlight what we want to let go of, and what we want to continue to concentrate on. Interruptions help show us the way.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 23, 20203 min read
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Words in Unexpected Places
I have a book on my desk, bought new. It stares up at me accusingly, shouting “Read me! Read Me!" It's 'Poems That Make Grown Women Cry'.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 19, 20203 min read
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Do You Surrender?
Surrender doesn’t mean giving up. Surrender isn’t handing over or caving in. Surrendering adds space and power to the moment.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 16, 20202 min read
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Will There Be a New World in the Morning?
Don’t wait for tomorrow.
Work with today.
That’s all you’ve got.
And it’s waiting for you to give it your full attention!

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 12, 20202 min read
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Who's Pulling Your Strings?
Be what Thich Nhat Hanh calls a true person, a puppet no longer. We need to stop acting a role, be our true, deeper self.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 9, 20202 min read
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