Dear Friends: Learning to Forgive Learning to forgive takes time, sometimes years. So be patient as you weave a little forgiveness into your daily routine as a way of strengthening your capacity to forgive. – Mark Coleman, “Why Are We So Hard on Ourselves?” Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you […]

Dear Friends: Releasing Our Expectations We have endless expectations that our experience will go a certain way, and these expectations are almost inevitably foiled. . . . Zen Buddhist practice asks us to sit with and try to accept that incongruity, rather than strain against it. – Mike Gillis, “Cringing Toward Compassion” Read More Words […]

Dear Friends: The Anatomy of Peace (formerly titled “How to Live With My Body”) my brain andheart divorced a decade ago over who wasto blame abouthow big of a messI have become eventually,they couldn’t be in the same roomwith each other now my head and heart share custody of me I stay with my brain […]

Dear Friends: “In every spiritual tradition it is believed that peace must exist in one’s heart before it can exist in the outer world” – Deepak Chopra Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! <!

Dear Friends: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not […]

Dear Friends: Fearlessness If we’re afraid of who we are, we continually feel frantic about filling that space, anything to avoid that persistent unease beneath the surface of our lives. The fearlessness of the warrior comes from stepping again and again into open space, with body, breath, and heart exposed. It is the fearlessness that […]

Dear Friends: “When you see the suffering inside yourself, you can see the suffering in the other person, and you can see your part, your responsibility, in creating the suffering in yourself and in the other person.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh“ Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks […]

Dear Friends: “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh Read More Words of Wisdom Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! How to Use Mindfulness to Be Happy! <!

Dear Friends: Most of us are feeling the atmosphere of fear and animosity surrounding the U.S. elections and, more broadly, the distress about the violence and natural disasters playing out globally. It’s intelligent to feel fear. We need to actively engage and respond to the very real and immediate dangers of these times. And, our […]

Dear Friends: Sujata’s Gift With or without a thousand cows, auspicious signs, and golden bowls, Sujata’s meal is recognizable. It’s the soothingly sweet kheer that we order at Indian restaurants after a satisfying, spicy meal. It’s the rice pudding that many of us longed for as a simple but comforting childhood treat. It’s the arroz […]