“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.”Watching the Water I’ve spent a lot of time trying to move the rocks in the river. I remember when I was young standing...
“I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you...
"The longest night carries the promise of returning light."Honoring the Long Night As the days grow shorter and the evenings arrive earlier, I find myself turning inward. Winter has a way of bringing us home — not just to our houses, but to ourselves. The...
"Love Difficult People — You’re One of Them."This quote made me stop in my tracks. It held up a mirror — not just to how I see others, but to how I see myself. I write often about judgment and how I’m working to release it, both toward others and toward myself....
“There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line, and the less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.”Sometimes the heart understands long before the mind catches up. I didn’t understand why this lyric...
“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”Life can feel like a whirlwind at times, my thoughts racing into the future, replaying the past, or spinning stories in the present. When that happens, it’s easy to...
“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty, only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good because there is evil. Being and nonbeing produce each other. The dificult is born in the easy. Long is defined by short, the high by the low. Before and after go...
“The pen is the tongue of the mind”Freeing My MindI’m a big believer in lists, I write them all the time. This doesn’t mean that I accomplish everything on my list, but just putting thoughts on paper, getting them out of my head can free up space. I don’t have to hold...
“Gratitude is not a passive response to something given to us. Gratitude arises from paying attention. From being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.” When thinking about gratitude it could be easy to list the things that come to mind...
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”Becoming Me: Leaving Old Beliefs BehindI know people who had trauma in their childhood. I did not. I had a really great childhood. Wonderful, fun memories. A stable loving home. Maybe it...
What helps you come back to yourself during a busy day?