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Explaining Why Meditators May Live Longer

The image of the ancient but youthful-looking sage meditating on a mountaintop might be closer to reality than you think, according to a new study that found that after a three-month stay at a meditation retreat, people showed higher levels of an enzyme associated with longevity. The study is preliminary and didn’t show that meditation […]

"Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count."

   ~   Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

moominmoments:

“Sometimes I feel that everything we say and do and everything that happens has happened once before, eh? If you understand what I mean. Everything is the same.”

“And why should it be different?”

- Hemulen and the Mymble (Moominvalley in November).