"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth Do you remember taking those swimming tests when you were...
Jumping into Deeper Waters: Mindfulness Bootcamp
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Super Storm, Sandy, or Frankenstorm – A Look From the Rearview Mirror
I posted my last blog just before Hurricane Sandy's arrival. I apologize. Reading about meditation equipment, or probably anything related to meditating, is totally boring in comparison to...
Propping Myself Up for Meditation Success: The Right Equipment
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -- Henry Ford I have tried and failed at meditating more times than I can count. This time I'm beginning...
Meditation, Running or Any New Habit: How to Fit it In?
In my last post, Why Learning to Meditate is Like Learning to Run, I noted that I had never managed to make room in my life for regular meditation sessions. Like most people, I would go...
How Learning to Meditate is Like Learning to Run
"To me, the relationship between meditation and running is natural, for one is a training of the mind and another is a training of the body." -- Sakyong Mipham My recent post "Awakening...
Newsflash from the Dalai Lama — It’s Not About Religion
I was so relieved to hear straight from the mouth of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism that it's not about religion. I had already heard this message from Eckhart Tolle in his...
In the Flow with Eckhart Tolle and the Dalai Lama
"With synchronicity, all the resources we need are made available for us at the precise moment that is appropriate. The people who come into our lives are the ones we need at that moment...
Awakening to My Runner Self
"My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy." -- John Bryant Personal transformation is a jokester. It sneaks up and bites you on the butt when you least...
Why I Have (or Had) a Breast Cancer Inferiority Complex
When I posted my last piece, "Mastectomy Day", it wasn't on my radar screen that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. I had had another blog topic in mind, but was suddenly...
Mastectomy Day
Each year, roughly 50,000 breast cancer patients in the United States undergo mastectomy (total removal of the breast).* Revisiting the journals I kept at the time of my own breast...
Mindful Cooking Part 2: Eating An Everlasting Meal
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." -- Virginia Woolf When was the last time you made yourself a really great meal? Just for you. Not trying to...
Mindful Cooking Part 1: An Everlasting Meal
What does your refrigerator look like? I opened mine a few months ago and found something akin to a forgotten Smithsonian warehouse, a hodgepodge collection of moldy, shriveled leftovers. ...