“Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life” ー  Thich Nhat Hanh ——— “In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness"—the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.   Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is—in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part—and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindFUL.” ——— Available: epub, pdf Edition Language: English, Vietnamese Goodreads: 4.31 / 5 (29 247 Ratings) #freeEbook #PeaceIsEveryStep #ThichNhatHanh

@Regran_ed from @monopolmagazin - The 6th @athensbiennale centers on the (im)possibility of ANTI, offering a distinct, idiosyncratic, and uneasy screenshot of our political, social, and cultural momentum. The exhibition dissects the way we polarize, fight, and antagonize in post-digital times: in the age of social media, of neo-reactionary movements, of post-truth nihilism, and of conspiracy theories developed by the alt-right. Saeborg (@saeborg_latex), the imperfect cyborg, is half human, half toy. Saeborg‘s performances are resembling nightmarish configurations of gigantic playmobiles in bizarre fairytale settings. Inflatable latex is used to shape the huge figures of a truck-sized pig and its humanoid piglets. No matter how cartoonish and friendly they seem, the birth of the inflatable piglet is playfully twisted. Sleazy, shiny, squeaking, anthropomorphic, these pigs are crossbreeds between BDSM and animal costumed PETA protesters. Photo: @anika #ab6 #athensbiennale #saeborg - #regrann

Some days, you hover and pull away and have lots of conversations with Jesus as they scream and fight and snatch and antagonize each other. . Then some days are gold, when the stars align and you see the fruits of your labor, all those hours of saying please and thank you and take turns and be kind. . They are giggling, sharing, playing, loving on each other in their own teeny tiny adventures. . And when Ella Grace starts crying because she’s so sad to leave, sweet M puts her little hands around her cheeks and whispers, “Don’t cry, Ella Grace, I walk with you, okay?” and your heart explodes into a messy tangle of mama pride. . Toddlers. They’re a little bit crazy, a little bit goofy, and so squishy with a mind of their own but oh how I wouldn’t trade this for the world. . This is how they learn, to push and pull, to stand up and show up, to fight for and with. . This is how they learn to tribe. . Thank you M and L for today and everyday.❤️ . . . #girlgang #squadgoals #honestmotherhood #toddlerlife