First off, I haven’t written in a few days here, please forgive me. I’m back at it again.
Awareness, acknowledgment and acceptance are the triplets that make life infinitely easier. This post will be a little shorter than my usual 1,500+ words, and it’s my intention to make it power packed with stuff you can use [...]
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Quote for the day:
“Today I open the door of my calmness and let the footsteps of silence gently enter the temple of all my activities. I shall perform all duties serenely, saturated with peace.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Sacred Text:
“And God’s peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union [...]
Today, something else came to me that I saw in the park yesterday. If you read my post from yesterday, you already know the gratitude lessons that surprised me… Here’s another… (The same with yesterday, mental meanderings are in green italics.)
I saw a woman with a baby in a carrier on her back. She was [...]
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This past Friday, it was my intention to experience and emanate peace, and to infuse peace into everything I did.
Well, when I arrived at Mr. Tire, the peaceful notion I had just had a few minutes earlier was already being challenged. I sat in the customer seating area waiting for my tire to be either [...]
I’ve been talking a lot lately about meditation to my coaching clients. It’s a recurring theme for good reason: meditation is one of the best ways to begin the day.
Whether you call it meditation, contemplation, reflection or silence, the practice of sitting comfortably in a relaxed position, breathing deeply and quieting the mind produces big [...]
I’ve been working with trust lately. I’ve had challenges with it at key life intervals, so I know there’s a lesson in it for me.
The issue came up this morning. I placed an order for books for an event this weekend. As an author, I like to always have books on hand. Since I waited [...]
This morning I was furiously swatting at the stray mulch on my driveway which has come undone in the recent wind and rains. Caught up in a sweeping frenzy, I had one goal in mind: to herd the stray mulch back into the bed as fast as humanly possible. I had other things to do. [...]
