6.2.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience. By analyzing and reflecting upon our past experiences, we gain valuable insights, learn from mistakes, and make better decisions in the future. Take time to reflect on your experiences, identify lessons learned, and actively integrate those insights into your life.
– John Dewey, How We Think
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Alan Watts on stillness:
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to protect my energy and use it wisely today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
5.26.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Taking moments of solitude and introspection allows us to gain clarity, inner peace, and personal growth. Carve out time for self-reflection, embrace moments of solitude, and seek a deeper understanding of your own thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Jim Rohn on being:
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to align my thoughts and actions with my deeper purpose today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
5.19.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. By being honest with ourselves about our strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, we can grow wiser and make better choices. Developing self-awareness and acknowledging our limitations is essential for personal growth.
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams
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Eckhart Tolle on surrender to life:
“Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to approach today with grace, no matter the circumstances.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
5.12.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
The only journey is the one within. Self-reflection leads to self-discovery, guiding us towards personal growth and a deeper understanding of ourselves. It’s important to carve out moments of solitude and introspection, creating space for self-awareness and embracing the ongoing journey of self-discovery.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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Rumi on interconnectedness:
“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to bring a sense of calm and peace into my thoughts and actions today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
5.5.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment. Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Heraclitus on evolution:
“Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to show up as my true self in all that I do today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
4.28.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
The world is a seamless, always self-creating, self-individuating, and simultaneously self-uniting, flow that is only truly knowable as it comes to be known. It is like a stream, with its whirlpools and eddies, that come into being for a time, and resolve; while they are there they are present to all observers, even measurable up to a point; and yet, while distinct, they are inseparable from the stream, not just in the sense that without the stream they do not exist, but in the sense that they are the stream... once one sees this, the objectivising, time-denying, change-denying, diagrammatic mentality of modern Western thinking appears as I believe it is: a hindrance, not a help, on the path to truth.
– Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things
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Desmond Tutu on interconnectedness:
“We do not exist in isolation. A person is a person through other persons.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to stay strong and adaptable in the face of challenges today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
4.21.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
The tension of the future is unbearable in us. It must break through narrow cracks, it must force new ways. You want to cast off the burden, you want to escape the inescapable.
Running away is deception and detour. Shut your eyes so that you do not see the manifold, the outwardly plural, the tearing away and the tempting. There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you.
You must fulfill the way that is in you.
– CG Jung, The Red Book
Quote
Lao Tzu on the flow of life:
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to embrace my creative energy and allow it to flow freely today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val
4.14.25
Meditation Mondays
Thought
The art of archery is not an athletic ability mastered more or less through primarily physical practice, but rather a skill with its origin in mental exercise and with its object consisting in mentally hitting the mark. Therefore, the archer is basically aiming for himself. Through this, perhaps, he will succeed in hitting the target — his essential self.
— Herrigel
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Henry David Thoreau on presence:
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Intention of the Day
My intention is to remain open to new opportunities and ideas today.
What’s your intention today?
Happy Monday,
Val