Somewhere this past fall (2011) I came across some more wonderful words of wisdom. They were attributed to Charlie Chaplin on his 70th birthday and entitled - As I Began to Love Myself.
A little research showed that perhaps this was not true. And a quote site about Charlie Caplin said, “Actually, a re-translantion (from [...]

I found the pondering of a fellow attendant at Byron Katie’s School for The Work (Oct. 2010) provocative. His question and my thoughts follow:
The fellow attendant (Antony Lehmann) wondered, “I would very much appreciate any comments that might help me clarify how humility is the opposite of subservience. Katie says this in ‘I need [...]

A reader commented to a previous post Accountability - Trust I give To Me:
I struggle with why being accountable to ourselves is so much harder. Even when it comes to the things we really want to do like loosing weight, spending time w/ family, or starting a business of your own it sometimes seems like [...]

What’s love got to do with it? With me? With my life? With my joy or success? With my sadness or loss?
Maybe love has a lot to do with it. ‘Loving it like it is’ - is a process of acceptance. Acceptance is not a process of non-action, rather a process of centered, grace-guided action. [...]

We have been taught and encouraged all our lives to strive, to reach our potential beyond where we are now, to be the best we can be, to do more, to be more, to be less - to essentially be different than what we are.
There in, to my mind, lies the seed of our [...]

“Truth is in the experience not in the description.” I have heard this said many, many times by my Kriya yoga meditation teacher. I do not know if it is original or a quote. It doesn’t matter it resounds with me ever time I hear it, every time I think it. It is one of [...]

November 4th, 2007 my dear friend, of 25 years, Debra completed her journey and left her body. I will miss her in the physical, though I still feel her wisdom and guidance daily. I felt honoured to be asked to write and deliver her eulogy at her memorial service. I share it in love.
To [...]

Wow. I just love it that science is able to back up what I and most of you have known from our observations - that women and men are different at a biological level and that hanging with my gal pals is good for me. Contrary to popular belief, just because something is fun does [...]