We’re trained to equate care with action and urgency with responsibility.

This line doesn’t argue — it simply interrupts that pattern. In practice, sitting can be a way of not adding more noise, more harm, more reactivity.

Sometimes that’s how the lifeboat holds.

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"It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it."

~ Sylvia Boorstein

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"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience."

~ Sylvia Boorstein
#quote #mindfulness #PresentMoment #sylviaboorstein #awareness

"Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.'

~ Sylvia Boorstein

#quote #mindfulness #sylviaboorstein #thepresent #awareness

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.”

– Sylvia Boorstein
#quote #sylviaboorstein #mindfulness #wellbeing