Archives for June 2015

Treat Meditation Like Music You Can Dance To

These words of wisdom from the great Alan Watts teach us to treat meditation like music you can dance to. Almost all of us like music and, if you are like me, you love to dance. We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike […]

Guided Meditation for Sleep

This guided meditation for sleep is something I could have used last night. Like many guided meditations, this one begins with the imagery associated with a quiet and peaceful beach, warming and relaxing you body and mind. The last twenty-five minutes or so consist of relaxing music to keep you sleeping well. Sleep is usually […]

Letting Go of Past Relationships: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy

Letting Go of Past Relationships: Guided Meditation. You let go of a past relationship not because you no longer care, not because you no longer need and want that person in your life, but because you understand that by letting go they will be happier someplace else. You will be happy someplace else Source: Letting […]

How to Stay Blissfully Positive Around Negative People – Purpose Fairy

How to Stay Blissfully Positive in the Presence of Negative People. Take heart and protect yourself against those who plunder your positivity with these practical strategies: Source: How to Stay Blissfully Positive Around Negative People – Purpose Fairy

How to Create a Wildly Happy and Deeply Fulfilling Life – Purpose Fairy

How to Create a Wildly Happy and Deeply Fulfilling Life. You are the designer of your destiny. Your destiny is not based on fate, luck, or outside factors. Rather, as Thomas Monson has said—“Decisions determine destiny.” Source: How to Create a Wildly Happy and Deeply Fulfilling Life – Purpose Fairy

Commitment is Very Important in Life

Here are more words of wisdom from Swami Satchidananda from The Golden Present. In today’s lesson, we learn that commitment is very important in life. “Commitment is very important in life. Those who want to lead a spiritual life are here to change all these things and to rebuild a better world. Remember that. You […]

Listening Closely to the Music of Your Mind

Andrew Olendzki, Ph. D. is a Buddhist scholar, teacher, and one of my favorite writers. I read everything of his that appears in Buddhist magazines. In these words of wisdom from Tricycle.com, he writes about listening closely to the music of your mind. In this way, we learn to see life just as it is, […]

Show Respect to All People and Grovel to No One

  So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service […]

How to Transform Challenges into Medicine

Here is another quote from Alex Lickerman, MD that teaches us how to transform challenges into medicine. When Silvia Boorstein talks about the first noble truth of suffering, she calls it the noble truth of challenges.   “From the Buddhist perspective, I told him, all of us have the capacity to make use of any […]

Prayer for the Twenty-First Century

This Prayer for the Twenty-First Century was composed by John Marsden. It was choreographed and performed by the Dandelions Dance Company. The background music was from Ashana’s Ave Maria. I listen to this recording on my iPhone quite frequently. May the road be free for the journey, May it lead where it promised it would. […]