Living a Mindful Life

My late Sanguine Savannahan mom Joni, once told me that each one of us has an outer life and an inner life. The outer life is our public life that everyone can see. It is made up of social interactions, whereas our inner life is made up of our thoughts, our attitudes, and our motives.

Only we know what is going on inside our inner life. Many times we go around pretending or acting one way, yet on the inside we are thinking something totally different. Our hearts and our actions just do not quite line up.

Whether these actions are to mask our own insecurities or worse – hide our sinister motives – nonetheless, we can only fool people some of the time, but not all the time. Since true friendships and relationships are built on openness and honesty, we need to realize and understand that we are looked at from the inside out.

Although it is true that we live essentially a subjective life – where one’s graffiti is another’s artwork, and one’s riveting avant-garde music is another’s noise – ultimately we know from within ourselves the true petition of our hearts in all matters at hand.

If we are just mindful, and find peace and comfort in all of our actions and our behavior in whatever we say or do, then we have performed selflessly for ourselves and, most importantly, for the greater good of others, and that is, karma at its best.

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