"If you're able to use your mind instead of being used by your mind, that's a beautiful thing. To use your mind constructively." -- Eckhart Tolle My 16-year-old son asked me once, "Why...
Why It’s OK to Switch Off Some of Your Thinking
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Making Peace with the Weeds
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson This year I have approached my garden from an Emersonian viewpoint, embracing the virtues of...
Pay No Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain!
"Most people are still completely identified with the incessant stream of mind, of compulsive thinking, most of it repetitive and pointless." -- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Discovering...
Why We Mind-Meld With Our Dogs
"We are ultimately not separate, not from one another nor from any living thing -- the flower, the tree, the cat, the dog. You can sense yourself in them, the essence of who you are." --...
Recharged After I Unplugged
"The digital consciousness can't tolerate three minutes of pure focus." -- William Powers, Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age It took...
Time to Shake Things Up
One month ago today, I posted my first blog. The site wasn't actually public until a couple of days later, but I'm using today as the blog's birthday since my first message was posted on...
Mystic Bunny
"Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time--surrendered to life." -- Eckhart Tolle,...
No Turning Back
"The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it." -- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art I am spent today. After submitting my book proposal...
Asking My Son to be My Critic
I just did one of the scariest things of my life. Starting this blog was a risky endeavor that exposed me to the world. Today I put myself out there even further. I gave my book...
Soul Run
“Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, others head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.” ― Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions...
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
On my flight home yesterday I had the good fortune to see the film "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" on the plane. I had already seen it in the theater a few weeks ago. If you haven't...
The Parrot’s Got the Power
He bit my toe! He snuck up on me when I was working at the computer and bit me hard right on my newly manicured big toe! I squawked. He squawked. Feathers flew. Let me introduce...