Transformation
I get to watch a baby being born. He tells me I am holding too tightly. The birth of the new is the old transformed. The baby flops out, the … Continue readingTransformation
Category: Encouragement
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Hope
Are you in a situation that you ‘hope’ turns out all right? According to C.R. Snyder’s research, hope isn’t an emotion; it’s a way of thinking. Hope happens when: We … Continue readingHope
Sit and Sweep the Garden
In Zen, they say there are only two things: You sit and you sweep the garden. You first quiet your mind and tend your heart, and then you naturally reach … Continue readingSit and Sweep the Garden
Stronger Together
I’m reading more of Daring Greatly this morning and it’s about shame – we all experience it when we don’t meet the cultural ‘list’. Women are expected to have these … Continue readingStronger Together
What gift have you been withholding?
In the end, we are not here to fit in, to be well adjusted, acceptable to all, or to make our parents proud of us. We are here to be … Continue readingWhat gift have you been withholding?
Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-sabi is a world view centered on the idea that beauty comes from the imperfections, the incompleteness, the impermanence, like the cracks in this sidewalk. Without the cracks, there would … Continue readingWabi-Sabi
Fears for the Future
I am a Grandmother now, but I can look back and remember a time when I thought the world would end before I had the chance to find love, get … Continue readingFears for the Future
Progress
I had a student come to me after class to tell me that he was back after a three-month break from yoga. He said he stopped coming because he felt that … Continue readingProgress
Nothing
I have been told in my dream circles to pay special attention to anything that someone gives to you in your dream. In a recent dream a woman gave me … Continue readingNothing
Beauty Secret
We can’t buy beauty, no matter how much advertisers would like us to believe this, but there is one beauty treatment that instantly works wonders. A smile! Like the Fonze, … Continue readingBeauty Secret
Perception
I remember Walter Cronkite used to end his news report by saying, “And that’s the way it is,” and I believed him. I know now that this is just one … Continue readingPerception
Incomparable
It’s one thing to be inspired by someone – to have a role model to look up to – but it is quite another thing to compare ourselves to others. … Continue readingIncomparable