This past holiday season, I walked into a store and listening to their holiday jazzy songs piped over their sound system, I waited for the clerk to help me. Waiting half-an-hour, the energy drained from my body. I craved to do nothing for a long time. Nothing. It...
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a pastor asking me to speak at her church. I asked her if she had any suggestions and she wrote, “How about gratitude?” I paused and then wrote back. “”Well, that’s funny. Gratitude? I have a lot of anger and...
Holy Ground It doesn’t. It doesn’t. And if you’re someone like me, who needs a good amount of mental spaciousness and a place free of clutter, so your mind and imagination can soar, then it never fits in. It doesn’t. But you dutifully try until you wonder if you even...
Ice Buddha Do not blame yourself for not doing more of what you knew not what to do Blame and judgment are callous cavernous spaces That take you away from the beauty of this day Self-inflicted torture Like the ascetic who denies their body Or the man and woman who...
You are the Embodiment of Love Have no fear or despair; don’t worry about a thing. This is the wisdom you are to embody today. Have no fear or despair; don’t worry about a thing. You are the Embodiment of Love. But there is everything to despair and fear and worry...
Sky Meditation & Contemplation ~ In meditation you dive deep in silence. In that dive you may initially encounter the body, including sensation and feelings, the noise of your own thoughts or the honking horn outside. But slowly you get to see that although you...
