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by Pema Sherpa and Brendan Barca

Created by Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca. Join the 2k subscribers getting The Mindful Minute Newsletter. Every Wednesday morning you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection, & 1 action to lead a calmer, clearer, & more conscious life.

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The Mindful Minute: Challenging Experiences, Difficult People, & Seeing Obstacles as Teachers

Week #63 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Challenging Experiences, Difficult People, & Seeing Obstacles as Teachers Quote: “What we call obstacles are really the way the world and our entire experience teach us where we're stuck." - Pema Chodron Reflection: Think about the last time you were learning something new. Maybe it...

4 days ago • 1 min read

Week #62 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Negative Emotions, Dealing with Discomforts, & Becoming Your Own Ruler Quote: “Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them." - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Reflection: Mental...

11 days ago • 1 min read

Week #61 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... THOUGHT WAVES, SEEING THE OCEAN, & LEARNING TO SURF Quote: “You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn Reflection: Every day our brain process about 70,000 thoughts. Of those, about 80% are negative and 90% are the same thoughts as the day before. It's no...

18 days ago • 1 min read

Week #60 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Old Photographs, Mundane Moments, & Finding Joy Quote: “Joy is being willing for things to be as they are." - Charlotte Joko Beck Reflection: Have you ever come across an old photo of yourself that captured a mundane moment of you hanging with your friends or sharing a meal with...

25 days ago • 1 min read

Week #59 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Accept Yourself, Accept Yourself, Accept Yourself Quote: “To be beautiful means to accept yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." Thich Nhat Hanh Reflection: Who do you look to for acceptance? Your parents? Your siblings? Your classmates?...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Week #58 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... 99 Problems, 1 Solution, & 2 Sandals Quote: “Where would there be leather enough to cover the entire world? With just the leather of my sandals, it is as if the whole world were covered." - Santideva Reflection: Do you remember a time in your life when you felt happy even though...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Week #57 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Being Here, Experiencing Now, & Living Every Act Fully Quote: "Live every act fully, as if it were your last." - The Buddha Reflection: You’ve heard the expression, “live every day as if it were your last.” But if you actually did that, what would your days look like? Would you skip...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Week #56 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Lost in Thought, Practicing Awareness, & Opening Up the Mind Quote: "Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.” - Joseph Goldstein Reflection: We spend our lives hopping from one thought to the next. Why...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Week #55 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Turning Selective Kindness into Universal Kindness Quote: "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." - The Dalai Lama Reflection: Have you been kind lately? Think about all of the interactions in your life over the past week — at home, in the office, with friends, with...

about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Week #54 The Mindful Minute By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old wisdom for modern living. Each week you'll get 1 quote, 1 reflection and 1 action to help you lead a calmer, clearer, and more conscious life. ... Overcoming Experts Mind & Finding New Possibilities Quote: "In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, in the experts mind there are few." - Suzuki Roshi Reflection: The moment we think we know how something works our mind closes up. Our brain tells us that we've solved...

2 months ago • 1 min read
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