Meditation

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.” Thich Nhat Than When I teach classes on meditation I always caution my students to approach their practice without...

Friends

“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.” Douglas Pagels It has taken me a long time to attract the people in my life that make really good friends but I am happy to say they are here now.  Most of them live a distance...

Self Talk

“Have patience with all things but first of all have patience with yourself.” St Francis de Salis Ok…I admit here and now I can be impatient especially with myself.  I tend to give others the benefit of the doubt but with myself I can be pretty harsh.  My expectations...

Simple Abundance

  “All we have is all we need. All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.” Sarah Ban Breathnach A few years ago there was a book, Simple Abundance, written by the author of the above quote.  It started a bit of a craze by introducing us to the...

Mindful Moment

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” Henry David Thoreau I live on an island and one of my greatest pleasures is walking on the beach. I see the majestic pelicans skimming the top of the water with their...