Perhaps there is a common clue of how one can be happy. Living in a spiritual community could be one of the clues. Within a spiritual community happiness arises and is inherent in the caring compassionate connections that are made: With such connections formed the frightened “I” who struggles is replaced by a collective “we” who go about facing the frightening and difficult aspects of life together, looking after one other.
When practising mindfulness , we cultivate and strengthen awareness enough to take a step back and not merely react. With mindful awareness , we can insert a gap or a pause between us and what we experience so that we are no longer carried away by our reactive patterns. In that little gap, there exist the freedom to respond in a fresh and less predetermined way.
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