PAUSE for 3 mindful breaths
Today is the thirteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
I am including the following quotes in memory of the victims of the attacks.
"In a real sense all life is inter-related. All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality.”
-Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”
“We need to awaken to a common consciousness of all being inhabitants of Earth. This consciousness is not to be found in some distant place. It will not be found on a computer screen. It lies in our hearts, in our ability to share the pain of our fellow human beings. It is the spirit that says: “As long as you are suffering, whoever you are and whatever your suffering may be, I suffer also.”
-Daisaku Ikeda
“Be kind to as many people as possible ... including yourself!”
-Elaine Smookler
Wishing you a mindful day
Lee
M. Lee Freedman, MD,CM FRCP(C)
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