by Deb | Jan 31, 2012 | Creativity, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you? Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides with perfect courtesy, to let you in! Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass! Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over...
by Deb | Jan 16, 2012 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Healing, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all other worlds except the one to which you belong. anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you -David Whyte (excerpted from Sweet Darkness) The worst limitations we live...
by Deb | Jan 9, 2012 | Connections, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind’s worst disease. -Sent-ts’an, c. 700 C.E. One of the greatest challenges I have with my own teenage daughter is trying to seek the...
by Deb | Dec 26, 2011 | Balance, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver As we prepare to end this year and enter the next, it’s a good time to do some reflection on how you want to live. Are you treating your life as precious? Are you...
by Deb | Dec 7, 2011 | Balance, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If...
