It's hard to know where you are in the general flow of the world sometimes. There are days that just go easily, and others, like today, where I'm brought up short and I don't know why. I don't know whether I've brought this upon myself. There wasn't much going wrong, but things didn't flow. For... Continue Reading →
Quiet
Just for a moment, from time to time, I am able to find quiet in my head. It’s barely an instant (and usually not while meditating, which just shows how much I rather suck at meditating, in spite of a regular practice). This last week I’ve had it twice. Once while walking in the mountains... Continue Reading →
The Way to Hell is Paved….
So there's two competing philosophies between "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice shame on me" and "Turning the other cheek". One says that we should learn from our mistakes and if we make the same ones again, it's kind of our fault, the other says that we should give things a second... Continue Reading →
Taking Your Own Advice
A woman I know had the courage to ask for advice from a yoga group I'm part of. She said she's been feeling out of sorts recently, repeatedly falling sick and not taking time for her own practice. I wrote back to her, knowing that the whole group would respond to such an appeal (we... Continue Reading →
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 