Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

~ Live & Learn

Notes:

  • Inspired by Frank Ostaseski in his book titled The Five Invitations where he shares five habits of mind, orientations of spirit — through which an untruculent acceptance of death can become a love-expanding, life-expanding force: (1) Don’t wait. (2) Welcome everything, push away nothing. (3) Bring your whole self to the experience. (4) Find a place of rest in the middle of things. (5) Cultivate don’t know mind. In the remainder of The Five Invitations, Ostaseski delves deeper into each of these precepts to distill its vital lifeblood into insights and practices with which to enrich and ennoble our diurnal existence. (Source: Brain Pickings)
  • Photo Manipulation: 2nd Photo “Splash” by Maurizio Raffa via 500px.com. First Photo purportedly by Raffa via mennyfox55)

36 thoughts on “Monday Morning Wake-Up Call”

        1. That’s better. Here’s another prod:

          Ostaseski outlines the five central “invitations” — habits of mind, orientations of spirit — through which an untruculent acceptance of death can become a love-expanding, life-expanding force:

          1. Don’t wait.

          2. Welcome everything, push away nothing.

          3. Bring your whole self to the experience.

          4. Find a place of rest in the middle of things.

          5. Cultivate don’t know mind.

          In the remainder of The Five Invitations, Ostaseski delves deeper into each of these precepts to distill its vital lifeblood into insights and practices with which to enrich and ennoble our diurnal existence.

          https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/09/the-five-invitations-frank-ostaseski/

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    1. Yes. You and Ostaseski.

      Ostaseski outlines the five central “invitations” — habits of mind, orientations of spirit — through which an untruculent acceptance of death can become a love-expanding, life-expanding force:

      1. Don’t wait.

      2. Welcome everything, push away nothing.

      3. Bring your whole self to the experience.

      4. Find a place of rest in the middle of things.

      5. Cultivate don’t know mind.

      In the remainder of The Five Invitations, Ostaseski delves deeper into each of these precepts to distill its vital lifeblood into insights and practices with which to enrich and ennoble our diurnal existence.

      https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/09/the-five-invitations-frank-ostaseski/

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  9. Interesting choice of images and text, Monsieur! I’m all for the diving into life… not so much into the bathtub – and yes, I can shallow dive but … not into a bath!

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  10. Such a great photo, DK.
    BTW….is anyone talking with you about ipad glitching? For some reason, I cannot “like” or enter a comment. The last one I tried (yesterday) came out as Annonymous. Only on my ipad, not my desktop. Hmmm….

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