Lisa Marie Blair

Tag: Mindfulness

  • If trying harder is hurting. // Jaiya John

  • Ground Yourself

    Clarity. Peace. Understanding. // Still Life

  • How Description Leads to Understanding

    Describing something with accuracy forces you to learn more about it. In this way, description can be a tool for learning.

    Accurate description requires the following:

    1. Observation
    2. Curiosity about what you are witnessing
    3. Suspending assumptions about cause and effect

    It can be difficult to stick with describing something completely and accurately. It’s hard to overcome the tendency to draw conclusions based on partial information or to leave assumptions unexplored.

    — How Description Leads to Understanding // Farnam Street

  • Live Deliberately

    I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived?”

    — Henry David Thoreau

  • Be Water

    “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

    Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

    ― Bruce Lee

  • It’s Just the Weather

    You are the sky. Everything else—it’s just the weather.”

    — Pema Chödrön (via swissmiss)

  • Measuring Days

    Stop measuring days by degree of productivity, and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

    — Alan Watts (swissmiss)

  • The Clock is Ticking

    The Clock is Ticking

    “You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”

    — Chadwick Boseman

  • Four premises

    To begin a process of contemplation, one must begin with these four premises. They are self-explanatory.

    1. Life happens in the present, so you don’t have a minute to waste.
    2. The past was meant to be learned from, not to be re-lived in the present. Regrets are useless because you can’t go back and remake the past.
    3. All your experiences and people in your life, whether you see them as good or bad, helped shape who you are today.
    4. You are the only one responsible for changing your current life to the one you want.

    — Self-Reflection 101 // The Good Men Project

  • John Steinbeck

    I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”

    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • Sophocles on Tomorrow

    Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, and we must mind today.”

    — Sophocles

  • People should think about the consequences of the little choices they make each day. What do you buy? Where did it come from? Where was it made? Did it harm the environment? Did it lead to cruelty to animals? Was it cheap because of child slave labor?”

    — Jane Godall (via swissmiss)

  • The point is, what I’m tryin’ to tell you is, it’s no use gettin’ soppy about how good things used to be. Most times, today is better, all right?”

    — Proinsias Cassidy, “Hitler”, Preacher AMC