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...
by Deb | Nov 4, 2011 | Balance, Connections, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” -Rumi, Sufi poet When we name things as right or wrong, we leave no room for a meeting of the hearts. When I find myself in disagreement with someone, I can get...
by Deb | Oct 7, 2011 | Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
“Abundance can be had simply by consciously receiving what already has been given.” -Sufi Saying We often seek abundance by looking for material things but when we take the time to look, we can see that we are surrounded with abundance: friendships,...
