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In Letting Go Of Wanting Something Special To Occur, Maybe We Can Realize That Something Special Is Already Occurring.

I Was Very Much A Tough New York Street Kid. I Went To A School Where You Had To Learn How To Get Along With Everybody Or Fight With Everybody, And I Did My Fair Share Of Both.

Concentration Is A Cornerstone Of Mindfulness Practice. Your Mindfulness Will Only Be As Robust As The Capacity Of Your Mind To Be Calm And Stable. Without Calmness, The Mirror Of Mindfulness Will Have An Agitated And Choppy Surface And Will Not Be Able To Reflect Things With Any Accuracy.

You Might Be Tempted To Avoid The Messiness Of Daily Living For The Tranquility Of Stillness And Peacefulness. This Of Course Would Be An Attachment To Stillness, And Like Any Strong Attachment, It Leads To Delusion. It Arrests Development And Short-circuits The Cultivation Of Wisdom.

Peace Is Something That We Can Bring About If We Can Actually Learn To Wake Up A Bit More As Individuals And A Lot More As A Species; If We Can Learn To Be Fully What We Actually Already Are; To Reside In The Inherent Potential Of What Is Possible For Us, Being Human.