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BIG: the practice of joy

Book by Kelly Corbet · 15 quotes · Inner Peace, Mindfulness, Mindful Living

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“Being free is all about letting go. Our culture acts like “allowing” a weakness, but try it and you’ll know it’s one of the most powerful things ever! Just for today, see what happens if you let go: of expectations, of fear, of resentments, etc. Imagine how light you’ll be without all that (old!) weight.”

“Here’s what I know is a true fact from my own life and what students have helped me learn from teaching more classes than I can count: if things aren’t getting better, I haven’t changed my story. Not just the story I tell while hiking with my girlfriends, but the story I unconsciously whisper to my very cells that in turn reverberates throughout my being. The story that binds itself with my emotions, my perceptions of the past, and my visions of the future. If my story doesn’t change, nothing else can.”

“What if your whole life could be a meditation? I’m not suggesting some far-off retreat center where the worries of the world couldn’t reach you. Nope. I’m suggesting the opposite. Create a space inside you that is so peaceful, so unflappable, that you’d never “need” a vacation away from it…and that is how to turn a life into a meditation.”

“My job is to change my VIEW of the world to live in a way not separated from Love; to live in manifested Love; and to shine it so brightly everywhere, that all those ideas about our separateness fade in that brightness. Remembering the Love that we are is what gives us the power to change our world, from the inside out, where the power always is.”

“The energy fueling everything we do is what matters most. EVERY. “LITTLE.” THING. Even if we’re changing a toilet paper roll, we can do it joyfully, instead of wasting time resenting the person who used that last square and neglected to replace it. “Little” responses like that add up in the movie of our life. We don’t really get to play the martyr anymore, but that’s a great role to give up. Better to play the happy star of our own show.”