Heal Thy Self by Saki Santorelli

Author:Saki Santorelli [Santorelli, Saki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-55660-8
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 1998-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

A Labor of Love

MUCH LIKE THE CAREFUL POLISHING of a mirror, mindfulness asks of us a steady, deliberate paying of attention to our lives moment by moment. Our intention to slowly begin to polish the mirror of the heart is a fundamental activity of being a human being, not different from flossing our teeth, washing our faces, or putting on our clothes. Meditation is central to this polishing, and sustained practice is no less than the taking up of a catalytic path of development—a constantly renewed decision not to turn our heads but to learn to see and work with whatever appears before us.

The process of opening what has been closed, of touching what has been untouched, of feeling the actuality of what is, is a difficult labor. The words of Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen master and poet nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, point to this process:

Mindfulness is revealing and it is healing.

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