Journal
Just be you…
When I first started writing these pages I thought although there are so many clearly wise quotes, it's often unclear how we can use them in our everyday lives. The saying 'fake it until you make it' is one of these sayings. Besides it takes a lot of effort for me to...
Confessions of a bad meditator
Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to...
Patience is a practice, not a virtue
Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the...
Creating a morning ritual
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel...
Confusing discomfort with real pain…
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man [or a woman] with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. —Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War With the holidays over, our first order of business is looking for a new place to live. In December our...
Letting your inner light guide the way
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct—a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence—it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that...
The election, the madness and mindfulness
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb I've managed to pretty much ignore the media...
When dharma calls
Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success. —Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth As you probably know by now, there came a point in my life where I was dissatisfied with people, things and places in my life. Although I like the shape my...
Harnessing the power that is your birthright
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves— slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. —Thich Nhat Hanh I discovered mindfulness—the process of bringing one's...
