compassion

Tuesday June 30 2020 compassion 13 miles meditative jog,“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,”
Amit Ray,

meditation

Monday June 29, 2020 13 miles meditative jog,“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
T.S. Eliot

Kindness

Sunday June 28, 2020 kindness 27 miles meditative jog,"There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."
Dalai Lama

Mind body and soul

Saturday June, 27 2020 mind body and soul 27 miles meditative jog,“Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.”Bruce Lee,

Humblness

Friday June 26, 2020 words 13 miles meditative jog,"Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble."
Yehuda Berg

Zen

Thursday June 25, 2020 zen 13 miles meditative jog",Zen is a path of liberation. It liberates you. It is freedom from the first step to the last. You are not required to follow any rules; you are required to find out your own rules and your own life in the light of awareness."
Osho

present moment

Wednesday June 24, 2020 present moment 13 miles meditative jog,“Long distance running is meditation. When I finish a long run, it’s like my brain has been washed. All the stress and negative thoughts are left somewhere on those long miles. At the end, the illusions of the past and future are removed from my mind, and it is set back to zero, so I feel I am totally in the present moment, reset, and ready to restart my life afresh.”Robert Black

quiet

Tuesday June 23, 2020 quiet 13 miles meditative jog,“Stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth.”Susan Cain, 

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Self honesty

Monday June 22, 2020 self honesty 13 miles meditative jog,“As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.”
Nelson Mandela

Breathe

Sunday June 21, 2020 breathe 27 miles meditative jog,“There are so many distractions in your daily life that taking the time to pause and consciously breathe is a gift you can give yourself – and in so doing you give it to others who feel your sense of calm and inner strength.”
Ntathu Allen, Meditation for Beginners: How to Meditate for People Who Hate to Sit Still

Planet Earth

Saturday June 20, 2020 planet earth 27 miles meditative jog,“Everybody has a little bit of the sun and moon in them. Everybody has a little bit of man, woman, and animal in them. Darks and lights in them. Everyone is part of a connected cosmic system. Part earth and sea, wind and fire, with some salt and dust swimming in them. We have a universe within ourselves that mimics the universe outside. None of us are just black or white, or never wrong and always right. No one. No one exists without polarities. Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.”
Suzy Kassem

Last 3 mile

Energy

Friday June 19 2020, energy 13 miles meditative jog,“When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this--instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy--we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.”
James Redfield,

Thank you

Thursday June 18, 2020 thank you 13 miles meditative jog,“Cultivate and nurture being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. Remembering that In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”
Angie karan

Done

Status

Wednesday June 17, 2020 status 13 miles half marathon meditative jog,“We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.”
Anthony Liccione

Blue sky

Surrender

Tuesday June 16, 2020 surrender to life 13 miles meditative jog,“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”Eckhart Tolle

Positive

Monday June 15 2020 determination 13 miles meditative jog,“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”Roy T. Bennett,
The Light in the Heart

Mental toughness

June 14, 2020 mental toughness 27 miles meditative jog,“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”
Paulo Coelho,

Present moment

June 13, 2020 present moment 26 miles marathon meditative jog,“Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present.”
Abhijit Naska

Wisdom

Friday June 12, 2020 wisdom 13 miles meditative jog,"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
Socrates

Change

Thursday June 11, 2020 change 13 miles meditative jog,“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
C. JoyBell C.

Long road

Wednesday June 10, 2020 gratitude 13 miles meditative jog,"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
Nelson Mandela

Seek within

Tuesday June 9, 2020 seek within 13 miles meditative jog,"Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.You are indeed the evident book,by whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect."
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Your health is your wealth

Monday June 8, 2020 your health is your wealth 13 miles meditative jog,"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy."
Izaak Walton

Self love

Sunday June 7, 2020 self love 26 miles meditative jog,“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
Fred Rogers

Getting away

Saturday June 6, 2020 getting away 26 miles meditative jog,“Never worry what others say when you walk away from all the drama. Be grateful you had the strength and courage to stay out of the conflict and be at peace with your choices.”
Elle Sommer

getting back up

Friday June 5, 2020 getting back up 13 miles meditative jog,"If life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. And if you get up, you can stand up. And if you stand up, you can fight for your dream once again. You have something special. You have GREATNESS within you!"
Les Brown

Self honesty

Thursday June 4, 2020 self honesty 13 miles meditative jog,“It’s not about changing the world, although that’s what we seem to rally around. Rather, it’s about changing ourselves for that is the seed from which changing the world sprouts.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self control

Wednesday June 3, 2020 self control 13 miles meditative jog,“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
Anais Nin,

Slow down

Tuesday June 2, 2020 slow down 13 miles meditative jog,“Go for a walk outdoors. Reconnect with the feeling of the wind blowing through your hair. Listen to the birds that live in a tree in your yard. Watch the sunset. Take time to smell the flowers that bloom in the park during the summer. The natural world is just as natural as it ever was, except there's less of it than there was twenty-five years ago - and most of us don't make a point of enjoying it often enough.”
Skye Alexander,

Haboure love

Monday June 1 2020 harbor love 13 miles meditative jog," We should continue all the time to look out for those who have less, to stand for those who can't, to reach out across differences, to use our land intelligently, to open our borders and welcome those who seek harbor, and never, ever cease to be curious, ask questions, and to explore and search."
Julie Payette