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JonW
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Fri Oct 04, 2013 12:27 pm  

Situations in which it is impossible to remain mindful. Part 1.
When the railway station clerk informs you that your day return ticket from Brighton to Manchester will set you back £376.
£376!!!
And that doesn't even include a complimentary biscuit.
Daylight bleedin' robbery.
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Cheesus
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Location: Leeds, UK

Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:26 am  

Wow! Did you cough up? They reckon HS2 is gonna bring prices down, but i reckon we're just gonna tear through beautiful countryside and pay through the nose in terms of fares and taxes for the privilege.
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages - Henry David Thoreau, Walden: or, Life in the Woods
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Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:15 am  

Nope. Sorry Jon, my poor battered brain is trying to understand that and quite simple can't. Where you coming via central Europe or something?
“Being mindful means that we take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.”
Mark Williams
http://adlibbed.blogspot.co.uk/p/mindfulness-me-enjoy-silence.html
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BioSattva
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Location: Beijing, China

Fri Oct 11, 2013 7:43 am  

A 40 minute bus journey out into the sticks north of Beijing cost me a mere 4 pence!

How does that even work?
"Compassion – particularly for yourself – is of overwhelming importance." - Mark Williams, Mindfulness (2011), p117.
"...allow yourself to smile inwardly." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (2005), p436.
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