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Remember Mindfulness – breathe slowly

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.
If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident,
or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat
blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one
mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter—we
never need read of another.
Henry David Thoreau.
Thoreau wondered if we could become addicted to
news. What would he have made of twenty-fourhour
news channels? He died in 1862 after a
remarkably unconventional life. He was first to
conceive the idea of civil disobedience and spent
two years living very simply in a hut in the woods to
experience the essential facts of life and to gain
enlightenment. He was practising mindfulness
before the word was invented. Can I benefit from
mindfulness by using the example of others?

Thoreau described moments of peace when his mind
had: The calmness of the lake when there is not a
breath of wind, and without an effort, our depths are
revealed to ourselves. I can aspire to such moments
using meditation. Today I give thanks for the peace
that comes through mindfulness.