Awakening
Monday, December 9th, 2024If important enough for us to be aware, that which we deny, distract, or avoid to ‘see’ will eventually get our attention and wake us up.
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Awakening
Friday, December 6th, 2024Growing apart… can we find in our hearts the ‘space’ to grow back together? Observational distance offers us the opportunity and the freedom to see what lies in the ‘gap’ of growing apart. Whatever may be the result of our internal fractures can be restored and healed with caring and open attention…from matters of clear […]
Awakening
Monday, December 2nd, 2024We have truly lost our ‘way’ when fear triumphs over fact. We must remain disciplined and diligent in transforming our fears with empirical fact and truth.
Awakening
Monday, November 25th, 2024It’s the little things we need to notice… to take more pause and savor. Those small “bits” of ordinary detail nestled in time and space that give us the real “flavors” & “textures” of our existence… moment by moment.
Awakening
Sunday, November 24th, 2024Our minds give us the natural capacity for ‘time travel’- where we easily wander into the past and future missing the details of what is directly happening in our present moment.
Awakening
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024If we cannot clearly understand our own feelings, then how can we skillfully relate to those felt by others? It is through our practice where we skillfully develop both compassion for self and empathy for others… an open invitation to embrace the feelings of being and inter-being.
Awakening
Friday, November 22nd, 2024NOTICE… how does calm feel in the body… and how about restlessness? When we take ‘pause’ and give attention to our bodily sensations, we are engaging in self-care.
Awakening
Monday, July 6th, 2020We cannot stop the flow of our thoughts as they are relatively constant, but we can move away from them by simply focusing our attention on our breathing.
Awakening
Friday, July 3rd, 2020Some of life’s ‘strongest’ teachers never openly reveal their strength. Their wisdom simply allows the ‘fighters’ to defeat themselves.
Awakening
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020To free ourselves, we must learn to be disciplined in gathering our scattered energies and focusing them in ways that are both purposeful and constructive.