Accepting things as they are is not as easy as it might seem. When friends or family do not behave as we desire them to, the reaction felt in response is generally unpleasant. Frustration and anger coupled with disappointment flavor the minutes, hours, and perhaps even years. Learning to accept adversity is not the same […]
Category Archives: Meditation
Put your mind at ease. Life will not leave you behind. In fact, unless you are anchored somewhere life might just take you on a joy ride down the river without a life jacket or a paddle. Maybe a joy ride every now and then is not a bad idea, but as a way of […]
Waiting for something real, better, more fulfilling or true can occupy a lot of emotional real estate. Looking forward to the future is fine if the looking does not evolve into living for the future or in the past. Neither exists really, so where does that leave you? While you wait for, oh, the sun […]
I am at work sitting at my desk, in a moderate amount of pain on a recent morning. The week had been characterized by a daily battle with fatigue which dogged me even after a full 8 hours of sleep. As long as I did not lie down as I got ready to leave the […]
All the wanting in the world, all the hoping and pleading are puffs of smoke, stinging the eyes and burning the nose, leaving ashy residue on every surface. The fragrance of anxious desires lingers, once it soaks into the fabric of life. It is good to see it, awake to it, and then to wash it […]
hope is a whisper in the darkness of disaster brilliant in unimaginable ways persistent and undaunted when humanity is tossed within the morass that evil fosters hope seems always to reappear stronger, bolder outcome notwithstanding what must be two sides to a coin balanced on a minted edge like a thousand others hope is a […]
only come to love awareness is that secret is no mystery see it emerge everywhere I am here today, as I am. I can finally put away the burden of the constant drone of insufficiency. It is enough for me to be. What a relief, yes? The more miraculous in taking this many days to […]
simple true enough today I am as I am wrapped in deep hearing to be is enough for me perfect timing is pressed firm within my being nevermind my rush limited is my dreaming
Sweet and heady occupation worthy of my concentration think time mine I love to be so mesmerized by rumination that the world of hesitation drifts into obliteration of think time Marvelous intoxication with my self commiseration while I think time must be waiting while debating it is not so caught up with deliberation that as […]
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