“What you seek is seeking you.” ~rumi When I became aware of Leonard Mlodinow’s book The Fragility of Grand Discoveries, which makes the case for randomness’ role in science, it started me thinking. Books will do that! I wondered about making use of randomness in this teeny-tiny-little experiment called my life and what discoveries might […]
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The Happiest Place on Earth – Selling Mindfulness
“Nothing could be finer than meditating in Carolina…” Wouldn’t it be great if meditation was as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet? I wonder what kind of world we could create if meditation was demystified, re imagined or sold en mass like cereal or detergent? Is it just me or are we […]
We Are All Veterans
“When the Indian saint Ramakrishna was asked why there is evil in the world, he answered, “To thicken the plot.” These very plot thickeners, often the most difficult and insistent ones, can lead us to open our bodies, hearts, and minds.” ~ from A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield We are all veterans. We all have some […]
Peace From Wanting
“Normally, the test of greatness in the arts is the ability to state deep feelings and perceptions simply, clearly, and well. Indeed, it may well be said that until a person can express a thought clearly and simply, he hasn’t yet fully understood it himself.” ~ Swami Kriyananda, from the book ‘Art as a Hidden […]
Life is Butter: The Meaning of Power
“Butter”, 8 x10 Watercolor “Power” is a powerful word. I know I am not supposed to use a word to define that same word. So what other words are conjured up when you think about POWER? My head and heart used to turn toward FEAR when I considered the idea of POWER. “Run away! Run […]
Pandora
Hey Pandora…Why not look inside? “Endowed by the gods with every attribute of beauty and goodness, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Happy the man given her as wife! Her dowry from the gods included a box, which she was warned never to open. No one but the gods knew what was hidden inside. […]
No Need for Struggle
“Don’t keep pushing against closed doors. Look around for the open ones.” ~ sanyana roman Every now and then I get caught up in wanting a thing that may not be mine. I feel owed it. Or I need it. Or I just would like to have it because I briefly enjoyed it…so it must be […]
Advocating for Meditation
“Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises. Like awakening from a dream, in the moment of pausing our trance recedes and […]
Good Purposeless-ness…from Other Voices
“like the lovely, free-form edge of a bird’s wings, we cultivate our essence, an alchemy of soul…..this, simply by being present and alive…..yes, fully alive……” ~ in the blue Our Strength Found in Fragile Depths “I am especially struck with the idea of the purposeless life, filling the well with snow. I suppose all life […]
non-judgmental awareness
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~thich nhat hahn Ahhhhhh – to be in non-judgmental awareness is a lovely vacation of sorts. It is a getaway from the push and pull of things. When I am here all that crosses my “virtual desk of life” […]
Joyful Creativity
Maui – Polynesian Trickster God Excerpts from IT’S BETTER TO BE A TRICKSTER THAN A MARTYR by Elizabeth Gilbert “There is another way to be creative that does not make a fetish out of suffering. There is an older way, a richer way, a more generative way — the way human beings had been […]
Enlightened Down South
The day is bright with possibilities after stretching and strengthening my back and my spirit. The instructor asked us to set our intention for the day. Was a beautiful yoga class @YogaGarden this am. My intention came to me quickly – “I allow Grace, Love & Abundance into my life.” Seems like a no brainer. Of […]
