“Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”  – Albert Einstein The idea is very simple, yet most of us, at least at times, find it immensely challenging to stay there for more

“Words have the power to both destroy and heal”   – Gautama Buddha “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”    – Mother Teresa “Language is the landscape of thought.”   – George Carlin Without language, as we all know, most of how we live would not be possible. Language

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.   – Cesar Chavez “Happiness will never come to those who do not appreciate what they already have.”  – Gautama

 COPING WITH INFORMATION OVERLOAD “…a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”  – Herbert A. Simon One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.  – Marshall McLuhan “Now you find capacity for dealing with

“I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.”  – Brene Brown “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” The story that follows came to

“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”  -Chinese Proverb  Assigning blame for our own mistakes and shortcomings works as a defense mechanism, which means, by definition, it is done unconsciously. When we do it, we

A phrase repeated for inspiration and to bring us change is an affirmation. A word or phrase that we repeat in meditation for its vibratory properties is a mantra. They are similar, but a world apart. Each can help us grow, center and deepen. Let’s take a look at them both. When I was in

We have been educated and conditioned to think of certainty as a kind of positive arrival. We’re taught to reject other competing  ideas and alternatives, arriving at what we decide to be the best, or only right way of relating to our situation. We do so in our own subjective way with a conviction that we

“The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I’ve had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I’ve had to lean into all I don’t understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.”     – Mark Nepo “Deep listening is miraculous

As children, when we did something that our parents (or those representing them) considered “wrong,” the consequences were unpleasant by design: When we were punished for our alleged transgressions, the response from whoever was in authority was not supposed to feel good – and it did not. The same model continues into adulthood. When we