“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” ― Mother Teresa We have just stepped into the season of winter, a time when our bodies naturally need more rest and connection with our inner nature. We are able...
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If...
“I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.” ― Anita Moorjani The mind is like the wind. It flits from information byte to information byte without offering us much insight...
What does it mean to be loyal to Self? How would you know if you were or not? Our soul doesn’t set limitations, we do. This earth plane is full of limitations, our bodies, other people, our environment and culture… its one of the joys of...
To create anything on earth, effort is needed. Friction is required to light the spark that creates fire, risks must be taken to build relationships and commitment requires our dedication even when inconvenient. Even actions as simple as saying “hello” to someone on the street...
I had an image come to me the other day as I was preparing to write this article, it was of a boat wizzing along the surface of the sea, moving so fast you couldn’t see what was in the water. When the boat stopped,...
What does it mean to live grounded upon the earth, to place our feet down and feel the ground light up under our weight? To be fully here, in the now and taste the world around us? To be so connected our inner compass that...
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson How was May? Did you get a chance to listen in? And if so, what did you do with what you hear? Did you dismiss...
The Sufi Teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan writes in his book The Inner life “In order to get the right disciples and the right people to come to him, a Sufi who lived in Hyderabad made a wonderful arrangement. He got a grumpy woman to sit...