We have to mindful about what we are putting in are everyday life. Especially having to go to work or having usual activities each and everyday. After doing all the main activities such as your daily job, driving to and from work, household chores, walking the dog, spending time with family and friends, eatings (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), some r & r, and miscellaneous, the time you are putting for yourself is this.

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Something beautiful is in the here and now almost always. Overlooking it is the misfortune and sheds the quality of its light. When you step away from something beautiful either knowingly or unknowingly, the beauty fades and diminishes.

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The rivers already started and its moving along the mountain. It’s movement flows gradually, depending on how wide or narrow the path is. Also, by what is there including trees, rocks, and other debris. It moves fast or slow. However, the river continues its way independent to the variables outside of it, but doesn’t stop it’s own momentum.

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The nature of the self has a way to put things back in order. After awhile from doing this and that in life, you can find yourself out of your center. This center is your natural organization of the self. Unnatural to yourself, it could feel frazzled, disorganized, uncomfortable, or rigid to mention the least. It could leave you without your vital needs.

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There are many things that bring yourself to masteries of every kind which you can come across in your lifetime. You can search the meaning of life. You can come to the discovery of “Who am I” through philosophical inquiry. You can find Truth with a capital T. In all these, requires your active searching where you look into yourself in a deep way.

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Everyday we are sharpening our skills, the edges of a sword or the brim of a shield. Sometimes, through hard thick molds seem perilous to finish. Other times, treading through is as where no end can be felt. But only the faithful, resolute, and determined can continue with the tests and trials before you.

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When it comes to it, you, yourself have to do the effort. Coming from Buddha concerns a higher path of life. Therefore, we have to think outside of a small mind to the bigger picture of life. It’s why we ourselves must walk the path.

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It is hard to discern the qualities of life in its many variations and differentiations. Which are adversities related to the desire and choice? When presented with objects of desire, it might entice someone to come and play. It could also be about just the curiosity of the attention to these objects. Look at me? What is in my hand? It may seem like a game of chance with bowls moving a hidden ball on a table. Is it a blessing or is it misfortune? However, desire does play into the power of choice.

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It seems that ever since we grew up from elementary, college, to adulthood, we have been fighting for something in life. But as things plateau, in a sense, perhaps due to a 9 – 5 job or a dulled everyday life, it could seem there is nothing to live for.

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It can be hard to see through a lens which has a particular image or color. If you look at the spectrum of colors on the rainbow, there are typically seven. But if you take one and only see through that lens, a finite version, then things can be seen too narrow and limited.

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