May 25, 2016 – A Good Laugh
A Good Laugh "Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters." Allen Klein, American writer and humorist, author of The Healing Power of Humor When the situation is tense, when pain is present, when discouragement predominates -- what a precious...
May 18, 2016 – Bread on Your Head
Bread on Your Head "There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts." Rumi (1207-1273) Islamic scholar, Sufi mystic It happens to all of us sooner or later: looking all over the place for something that is right in front of...
May 11, 2016 – “We humans…”
"We humans..." "We humans are so easily distracted. It is possible, even easy, for us to live entire days and weeks without noticing much around us. Our internal voices chatter on. We feel compelled to 'get things done'. No time is allotted for something as...
May 4, 2016 – All Alone
All Alone "Unlike achieving things worth having, to achieve things worth being usually requires long periods of solitude." Mayer Friedman, Ray Rosenman - American writers (Type A Behavior) Make no mistake, being all alone and still are states that our culture...
April 27, 2016 – Hope
Hope "My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times" Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945- ) American writer, Jungian analyst I cannot remember any time, at least in my lifetime, that so many people seem so bewildered and appalled about the state of affairs in...
April 20, 2016 – Stress/Relaxation
Stress/Relaxation "Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present" Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, naturalist Achieving true relaxation is a challenge for which you really need to know yourself well. How do YOU relax? It...
April 13, 2016 – Sold Out
Sold Out "Someone sold us out -- but only when we ceased to pay attention." Timothy Findley (1930-2002) The Telling of Lies These words seem to be meant especially for us -- we who are alive right now. Being "sold out," means we've been betrayed, two-timed,...
April 6, 2016 – Ah, Music!
Ah Music! "Music is the mediator between the spiritual life and the sensual life." Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) German composer I think integration is what he's talking about, when the inner life and the outer life are in sync with each other -- or "who you see is...
March 30, 2016 – Shepherd
Shepherd "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd." Rumi (1207-1273) Sufi mystic and poet A few thoughts on "walking out of your house like a shepherd:" -First of all, you would have to care -- care about...
March 23, 2016 – Move
Move "Being still does not mean don't move. It means move in peace." E'yen A. Gardner - Contemporary American poet "Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind." Marty Rubin (1964- ) Swiss athlete Recently we looked at a Neruda poem which says be still...
March 2, 2016 – Fun
Fun "Are you havin' any fun?" Popular song (1939) - Lyrics by Jack Yellen; sung by Tony Bennett You'd probably be surprised how many people, when asked "What do you do for fun?" are stumped, or have to think hard and dig deep for an answer. So, You? What do you do for...
March 16, 2016 – Irish
Irish "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English." Winston Churchill (1874-1965) English Statesman Beneath the Churchillian wit lies a great deal of pain and strife; not just for the Irish (and even the English), but literally for all ethnic...
March 9, 2016 – Keeping Quiet
Keeping Quiet An excerpt from Pablo Neruda's Poem titled "Keeping Quiet:" "If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of...
February 24, 2016 – A Great Gift
A Great Gift February 23, 2016 "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." Simone Weil (1909-1943) French philosopher and mystic Generosity is a human characteristic that is hard to resist, seems to have its own magnetic pull on our he Garts, and is...
February 17, 2016 – Perspective
Perspective February 17, 2016 "There are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up that are making it impossible for us to focus on others." ...
January 27, 2016 – Politics
Politics "Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian/American economist, diplomat When you look at the current American political scene, it is very tempting...
February 3, 2016 – Mad as Hell
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January 20, 2016 – Pep Talk
PepTalk "Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the world." Rumi (1207-1273) Sufi poet Is there still such a thing as a "pep talk?" Do coaches still give them to their...
Internet as Distraction
Internet as Distraction "The Internet is designed to be an interruption system, a machine geared to dividing attention.... We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the division of our attention and the fragmentation of our thoughts in return for ......
Only Now
"The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun." —Dada Vaswani (1918- ), Hindu author and philosopher You hear a lot these days, at least in spiritual realms, about "being in the now," about "mindfulness"...