Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing, and CompassionEach of the 366 meditations in this gathering of wisdom is designed to move readers away from turmoil, strife, and divisiveness and lead them toward peace, resolution, and cooperation. This shift in consciousness is challenging, but with the words and ideas of this book, readers can assemble a collection of practical tools for peaceful living. The learned behaviors of hate and resentment and the cycles of revenge are broken down and replaced with the skills of nonviolent communication, including recognizing one's needs and values and making behavior choices in alignment with them. This collection presents new ways of viewing familiar situations and daily reminders of the value of living compassionately. Each meditation includes an inspirational quote and tips for integrating the message into the reader's life. |
Contents
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Meditations for APRIL | 111 |
Meditations for MAY | 147 |
Meditations for JUNE | 182 |
Meditations for JULY | 213 |
Meditations for AUGUST | 249 |
Meditations for SEPTEMBER | 286 |
Meditations for OCTOBER | 318 |
Meditations for NOVEMBER | 353 |
Meditations for DECEMBER | 386 |
Mary Mackenzie | 423 |
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acknowledge actions Albert Einstein anger angry annoyed appreciation aware of opportunities aware today beauty behavior blame choice choose clarity compassion Compassionate Communication conflict consciousness consider contribute conversation create didn’t Don Miguel Ruiz emotional enjoy everyone's needs equally experience express feelings and needs felt focus focused frustrated goal guess happened happy healing hear heard honest hurt intimacy jackal judge judgments least one person listen look Mahatma Gandhi meet my needs meet your needs Melody Beattie minutes need for love need for respect need for trust Nonviolent Communication process Notice okay ourselves partner peace people’s person today present Ralph Waldo Emerson relationship relief request resolution shift simply situation Sometimes specific spend started step talk tell Thich Nhat Hanh things thought trying to meet underlying needs understand unmet needs value everyone's needs week worried Yeah
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Page 153 - There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And, if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. —Martha Graham
Page 32 - True freedom is to share AH the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free! —James Russell Lowell
Page 406 - Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. —Thomas Carlyle
Page 246 - I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. —George Washington The
Page 357 - Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. —Louisa May Alcott
Page 380 - It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them. —George Eliot
Page 354 - You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. —Eleanor Roosevelt
Page 26 - There are so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without significance. —1 Corinthians 14:10
Page 141 - To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. —Walt Whitman