Whether you are saying Good-bye or saying Hello, our Sacred Vows are the touchstone of what is true. Sacred vows include what you have said about yourself, to yourself, in the quiet moments. Sacred Vows act as a baseline, a reset and illicit an inventory of where you have fallen short or have lost your way or where life’s arrows have…
DetailsOne of my oldest and dearest friends just died. A truly beautiful person inside and out, who exponentially enhanced the world and the people he touched. He wasn’t famous but his influence and impact was like that of a celebrity. He was a beautiful mixture of sardonic and sweet. I will miss him. I hadn’t…
DetailsThere’s a natural order to everything; We keep screwing with the natural order of things. Most people live from Production, Creation, Liberation. If I get something, have something, conclude something, accomplish something, I will be more creative which in turn will give me Liberation/Freedom. Wrong order. First comes liberation regardless of the circumstances (That is…
DetailsGot to savor the moments- The moments of relief from anxiety, stress, fears. Stress is the water we are swimming in, whether you’re in the shallow end of the pool or the deep end, we are all still wet. Stress is an interesting coupling of resistance and desire. The resistance is fairly self evident, when one…
DetailsOur lives are a series of daily decisions that either enhance, liberate or diminish our spirit. Those decisions are either expressions of self-love or acts of sabotage. Routine is very often an act of self-love. Whether you get up to meditate or to walk the dogs on a cold day or go take a run. The…
DetailsIt’s amazing how inspired and inspiring some people are, how despondent others seem to be and then there’s the middle group who just seem to be getting through. Of course there are nuances and human variations inside of these three generic conditions but it’s a place to start.I used to jump out of bed very…
DetailsWe all have our different values- where we shine our light- where we put our attention.MONEY-HEALTH-FAMILY-CAREER and others, obviously. We also have an Ontological compass- a different North South East and West that life asks of Us. We have our Crosses to Bear, our Traumas to Work Out, our Karma to Understand and our Dharma to Surrender To- Our ‘Crosses to…
DetailsVocabulary reflects where we live, reflects the times we live in. When certain vocabulary moves from the background to the foreground and becomes daily nomenclature, it’s reflecting the zeitgeist of the times. Pivot is a word that is now bandied about and has an entirely different connotation. Pivot is used as a business term today for taking a new direction, but Pivot reflects the culture, nothing is secure, one must be in a constant…
DetailsWe walk by people every day making snap judgements. How they look, an attitude, a way someone’s dressed. We don’t have a clue what might be going on in that person’s life. They might have lost a job that they loved or extenuating circumstances have put them into a compromising position or worse, they might…
DetailsAs the year nears completion, we do a review of what that year yielded both personally and globally. It’s been a year of crisis, more people have been impacted by difficulties and challenges. It’s not been easy-so many people have been hit by the virus of divisiveness and violence, it’s hit our world, our domestic…
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