https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEfq7wLm7M A Brave and Startling Truth We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The-journey.mp3"][/audio] The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The-cookie-Thief.mp3"][/audio] Cookie Thief A woman was waiting at the airport one night, With several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shop, Bought a bag of cookies and found a...
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTvAi9UdLw[/embed] Hokusai Says Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He says there is no end to seeing. He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Letter-for-a-poet.mp3"][/audio] Letter to a Young Poet We have no reason to harbour any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors. If it has abysses, these...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Two-Kinds-of-Intelligence.mp3"][/audio] Two Kinds of Intelligence There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Wild-Geese.mp3"][/audio] Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Enough.mp3"][/audio] Enough Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life We have refused again and again Until now. Until now. By: David Whyte For the...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Kindness.mp3"][/audio] Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all...
[audio mp3="https://themindfulbrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/I-am-not-I.mp3"][/audio] I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one Walking beside me whom I do not see, Whom at times I manage to visit, And at other times I forget. The one who remains...
