The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. If you want to be happy be grateful. The Dalai Lama puts it this way: I believe that the purpose […]
The Work That Reconnects | February 24, 2015
February 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Work That Reconnects | February 24, 2015 This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we feel the trauma of our world. So don’t be afraid of the anguish you feel, or the anger or fear, because these responses arise […]
Healing with the Seven Principles of Mindfulness
February 24, 2015 by
Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing The Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing have been formulated over the past 38 years – ever since my son was stricken with metastatic kidney cancer at the age of seven. Up until now, they have been implicit in everything I did for my son and for myself. When […]
Desire-Based Meditation
February 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
You probably haven’t heard of desire-based meditation before. I didn’t either. Until yesterday. I was doing my morning meditation practice in my favorite chair in the living room. I was inquiring into the role of desire in living the life I have and the life I would like to create for myself. Many thoughts and […]
Father Lies to His Daughter to Keep Her from Knowing the Harsh Truth – Purpose Fairy
February 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Father Lies to His Daughter to Keep Her from Knowing the Harsh Truth – Purpose Fairy.
Gratitude is a Way of Undercutting Your Ego
February 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Force of Gratitude | February 22, 2015 Gratitude is a way of undercutting your ego—that is, it is a way of being Buddhist. There is an awareness that we get now and then about what we owe to others, and Shinran [the founder of Shin Buddhism] feels that that should become the moving […]
Reaching the Ultimate Dimension
February 22, 2015 by
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us about reaching the ultimate dimension. The ultimate dimension distinguished from the historical dimension of ordinary life. In ordinary life, we have pain. We have suffering. We have conflict. We have war. We have arguments. We strive for wealth, technology, sex, and power. We lose site of what we […]
Find Your Life Purpose: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy
February 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Find Your Life Purpose: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy.
Alicia Keys Spoke on Finding Herself with Oprah
February 21, 2015 by
Alicia Keys spoke on finding herself with Oprah during this portion of a Master Class on OWN TV. She talks about how frenetic her life was as a musician and honored celebrity. She decided to take a three week break from it all and went to Egypt. She says, I was just so reinvigorated. It […]
Make Conscious Decisions about Extinction
February 20, 2015 by
Elizabeth Kolbert makes a good point here when she encourages us to make conscious decisions about extinction. Every day in every way, species are dieing out and the whole of humanity is unconscious about them. Many are dieing because we are cutting down the rainforests to make land available to raise cattle. The funny thing […]
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