Tag: kindness

• out of the forest

  

  People talk about meditation as a new healing remedy, equivalent to the stardom of aspirin for heart attacks. Apps like “Headspace” and “Calm” lead users through a meditative practice, using words like “clear your mind, engage your senses, breatheeeee.” Sometimes this language feels foreign to those with busy minds and lives. It’s hard to see […]

  musedwithmary

  June 12, 2018

  Life thoughts

  acceptance, beauty, blog of the day, Christ, gratitude, kindness, love, meditation, word of the day, writing, yoga

• reasons

  

  After reading When Breath Becomes Air, it caused many moments of self-reflection, recognition, and realization. The most profound of these moments was certainly the correlation that Dr. Kalanithi feels between the morality of humans and the principality of science – and the deep and undeniable connection between the two. My own experiences with realizing what […]

  musedwithmary

  April 3, 2016

  Uncategorized

  Big Questions, biology, christianity, God, humans, humble, kindness, mercy, metaphysics, philosophy, poetry, psychology, religion, rhetoric, science, self love, understanding, When Breath Becomes Air

• pieces

  

  Two nights ago I went restorative Yin Yoga at Shakti before my first day of classes yesterday. During one of the periods of long, extensive stretching I let my mind navigate to the place it wanted to go without my own coercing. During this small period of tabula rasa, I saw a girl trying to […]

  musedwithmary

  January 7, 2016

  Uncategorized

  beauty, blog, body, body health, Christian, college, encouragement, family, God, happiness, health, imagery, kindness, love, med student, medicine, mindfullness, new year new me, perfection, philosophy, pieces, pre med, puzzle, situation, understand, whole, yoga, yogi