Don Altman Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: b. 1950

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

source: - Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library

Topics: Life, Simplicity, Alive, Simplicity And Elegance

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If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just one act of living kindness. The effect of each caring action, no matter how seemingly small, brings blessings into the lives of others. There may be no greater or more important thing that we can do at this instant.

Topics: Kindness, Caring, Blessing

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

Topics: Hurt, Self, Goal, Self Identity

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