"Our
intelligence and dignity themselves are developed by our being alive for
everything, including the mundane anguish of our lives. Just our
awareness of our sensations, of our experience, with no object or idea
in mind, is the practice of not preferring any particular state of mind.
Such intimacy with our activity and the objects around us connects us
deeply to our lives. This connection—to the earth, our bodies, our sense
impressions, our creative energies, our feelings, other people—is the
only way I know of to alleviate suffering. To me, our awareness of these
things without preference is a meditation that synchronizes body and
mind. This synchronization, the experience of deep integrity, of being
all of a piece, is a very deep healing." Darlene Cohen (1942 - 2011)
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