Doing what feels better

  I really feel compelled to write today about what we do with how we feel around the people in our lives. Over coffee with friends today we were sharing about our latest news.  I find that as I listen to various conversations over a couple of week period of…

Commit to your choice

I was having lunch yesterday with a couple of friends and one was mentioning about an upcoming lengthy 6 month trip road trip she was about to head out on.   As we asked questions she was unable to answer about her departure I really got thinking about decisions.  What…

Ignoring

I felt really happy this morning when I felt a teaching ‘sink in’ deeper.  The teaching was about ‘ignoring’  which has been a topic of conversation amongst friends lately.  Many people have shared with me of late the seeming inability of some friends or family to reciprocate to correspondence.  …

Practice comes first

We choose a practice after we have tried it once. Whatever it may be, a daily gratitude practice, sitting meditation, writing, yoga, reading a spiritual passage from a book, a few particular exercises. There are so many forms of practice and I will share about them in a post of…

Try?

When I travelled to India in 2003, I was at a gathering of friends one night and I will never forget a guy who leaned over and put his hand on the neck of a wine bottle. He said “you don’t try to pick up a bottle of wine to…

Forgiveness heals

In the midst of a conversation with a close friend yesterday, I heard words come out of her mouth that instantly stung me. They touched a place deep inside that shook my moment and I felt what I thought at the time was a protective wall fall all around me….

Awareness

Awareness is our true nature. It is that part of us that in my view is more important we wake up to, connect with and nurture more than anything else we do in this life. When we live without self awareness, understanding and experience of it, we are living an…