One Sentence About Healing cont…
In a previous blog, I posed the question: If you could put everything you knew about healing into one sentence, what would that sentence be? It was a question that intrigued me for years following a...
View ArticleWhat Am I Dialing In To?
As Alastair Cunningham points out [see comments to previous blog] it is the obvious next question. At first I shied away from answering it. It seemed like too big a question to tackle. The main hurdle...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From Our Pets
In Calm Mind Warm Heart, I tell the story of Frida (not her real name) a middle-aged woman diagnosed with breast cancer. Shortly after her diagnosis, she was startled to learn that her beloved golden...
View ArticlePractice…Practice…Practice
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could sustain peaceful awareness with very little effort? So that whatever point we have reached in our understanding and experience of the sublime would then become our...
View ArticleWhat Is Hope?
Hope is an opening. It is the opposite of fear in the sense that hope opens us up while fear shuts us down. So much of our quality of life comes down to how we walk that line between hope and fear....
View ArticleCultivating A Warm Heart
The words of the Dalai Lama merit repeating over and over again: “The single most important thing you can do for healing is to cultivate a warm heart.” [See blog: One Sentence about Healing.] When...
View ArticleWhy Is Meditation So Hard?
Why is meditation so hard when the instructions are so simple? What could be easier sounding than the direction to close your eyes and follow your breath? If you have tried meditation for a while and...
View ArticleHappiness and Newfoundland
Have you ever had the experience of walking into a place and suddenly feeling happier? Something about the spot promotes wellbeing: call it energy; call it spirit; call it aliveness. There is no word...
View ArticleMorning-All-Day
My friend Dudleigh has a place he calls Morning-All-Day. It is a beautiful rock, facing Lake Superior that catches the morning sun. A new day is greeted there in all its splendor, wonder and...
View ArticleLetting Go
Peace of mind means letting go of all the things that block peacefulness—our worries, fears, resentments, hurt and anger. But what are we really letting go of? It’s not as if we can instantly relieve...
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