Mindfulness is your natural state that we all can awaken to. It is not something you need to strive for, can buy, achieve or create; it is already within you. You just need to separate and navigate through the clutter of your mind to discover what has always been within you. This is what makes […]
Read more »She came to me in the dead of winter, emerging like an angel in the fog on a freezing February morning. I was on a walk in the park, lost in my own little world, as she crashed into me. Our eyes locked, an unguarded moment, revealing pain buried deep behind the mascara of her […]
Read more »Your entire life consists of sensory perceptions, thoughts and emotions. That’s it, that’s your life! This is how you experience life and it essentially makes up your “world”. It becomes you, your identity, and how you view the world and navigate through daily life with all its ups and downs (actually, there is another – and […]
Read more »Time can be our worst enemy and the cause of so much suffering. Not clock time, but rather psychological time, where we dwell in the past or project into the future. We are either trying to reconcile a history that we keep reliving over and over again or trying to avoid a bad future that […]
Read more »Life is not easy without inner peace. But so many of us have it backwards as we try to change our external world in the hope of creating a peaceful life. The reality is that when we find peace inside ourselves, the external world matters far less. We tell ourselves: if I can just get […]
Read more »I launched this website in 2012, and here now a decade later I am writing my final blog entry. This decade was quite remarkable for me, starting with immense suffering which ultimately transcended into an amazing spiritual journey, that which I am eternally grateful for now and view it as the greatest gift in my […]
Read more »2022 was a mixed bag after the dumpster fire of 2021. The pandemic continues to adversely affect our norms of daily life but we have learned to coexist with it. Proponents of the Big Lie were overwhelmingly rejected by the American people in the midterm elections perpetrated by the worst President in American history. Climate […]
Read more »***Holidays originates from Holy Days, a time for spiritual reflection*** Life is far too complex to compartmentalize your activities into three broad categories, and certainly during these challenging times in the age of a pandemic. But it may be helpful to consider the motive behind all your endeavors and the ultimate benefit you derive as […]
Read more »The word disease originally was used to refer to lack of ease or comfort rather than how it is used today to describe a sickness or health condition. But perhaps in this context it is apropos to revert back to its original definition where dis-ease literally meant to not be at ease. Whenever you can, pause and […]
Read more »Surrender is such a powerful tool to help us towards inner peace. It is the simple but profound wisdom of acceptance rather than opposing the flow of life. Surrender is like a fish finding the current and going with it, rather than trying to swim against it. It is to relinquish all that inner resistance […]
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