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  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Mindfulness
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    • 5 Mindfulness Trainings
    • Links
  • Calendar & Retreats
    • Calendar of Events
    • 2022 Spring Retreat
    • October 2021 DOM
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      • 2019 Spring Retreat
      • Fall 2018 Retreat >
        • Fall 2018 Gallery
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      • Fall 2016 Retreat >
        • Fall 2016 Gallery
      • Spring 2016 & Fall 2015
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MIndfulness is Our Daily Practice

​Mindfulness is the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. It is the continuous practice of touching life deeply in every moment of daily life. To be mindful is to be truly alive, present and at one with those around you and with what you are doing. We bring our body and mind into harmony while we wash the dishes, drive the car or take our morning shower.​

MIndfulness is An Energy

"The function of meditation practice is to heal and transform. Meditation, as understood in my tradition of Buddhism, helps us to be whole, and to look deeply into ourselves and around us in order to realize what is really there. The energy that is used in meditation is mindfulness; to look deeply is to use mindfulness to light up the recesses of our mind, or to look into the heart of things in order to see their true nature."
Thich Nhat Hanh​
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Five Steps to Mindfulness  by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Mindfulness is A Miracle

" Mindfulness is the miracle by which we
master and restore ourselves. Consider, for
example: a magician who cuts his body into
many parts and places each part in a different
region -hands in the south, arms in the east,
legs in the north, and then by some miraculous
power lets forth a cry which reassembles whole
every part of his body. Mindfulness is like that
-it is the miracle which can call back in a flash
our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness
so that we can live each minute of life.​" 

Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness