What To Do About Violence?
“ANOTHER violent attack, this time in Manchester!??!!!” I hope the person sitting across from me devouring his breakfast croissant couldn’t hear my barely disguised “WTF Holy Spirit!!???!!!!” as I read the news on my phone. I was glad I had time to sit there and take it in. I had the time for the shock, the horror, the disbelief and the never-ending “WHY????!!!” to surface one after another until I felt like I was going to throw up. I asked 20 versions of “What can we DO about this terrible violence??” Somehow “fighting...
Read More“A Bowl of Cherries” or Just the Pits?
Is your (average daily) life just a bowl of cherries? Or is it more like just the pits? You are only as rich as your daily life. You are only as successful as your daily life. You are only as happy as your daily life. Do you seek mountain-top experiences? Then you must learn how to reach the mountain top within and then the whole of your daily like is a mountain top experience. Yesterday my daughter asked me what I was looking forward to most on our upcoming visit to Australia next month (going for a family wedding). I had to pause. My mind was blank. Though I am really excited and...
Read MoreStillness Speaks
When the unexpected, the fearful or the utterly ordinary happens, the Stillness within will comfort, encourage and enfold you in peace. This is what Stillness says whether you are listening or not……….why don’t you pause and listen for awhile? Let each word and sentence caress your heart and remind you, you are loved. I need do nothing. All is being done on my behalf for our greatest awareness of joy. There is nothing I need for all my needs are met in their first infancy of awareness. Everything is conspiring with me for my greatest joy & peace. This process of...
Read MoreRx: Stillness
There are times when the only thing you can do is be utterly still. Not so much as you are all calm and meditative but as in there is literally nowhere else to turn, nothing else to do or think, i.e. fear has you at a complete standstill. When the unexpected happens (and it will) and someone in your circle attempts suicide, or receives a diagnosis, or you get your tax bill and think perhaps the government is planning to pay off its debt with only your contribution. When the baby’s birthdate is no more due to miscarriage or the chronic illness reaches a new low, baffling even the most...
Read More12. Day 4: A Sensitive Issue
Extending love to feeling and feelings is a departure for me. Sure, I can extend love to thoughts all day long. Even though thoughts in this case are everything I am aware of. See, that’s the thing. I am not really aware of my feelings. I am aware of sadness, happiness, despair and crossness but feeling those things is different. I have trained myself (not very well actually) to ignore my own feelings because I have also trained myself to be acutely aware of other people’s feelings. When my daughter was ill several years ago she would put her head against mine and say...
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