Happy New Year! Do you ever blend your spiritual knowledge and practices with fitness routines? Or take those same teachings and apply them in a new, practical way? The story Thich Nhat Hanh tells below is one reason I collect
Walk Like a Buddha
The Essential Lesson of Self-Love
The essential lesson of self-love is that it never ends. Not the lesson. That would be tedious. For some, yes, the lesson can return again and again. The essential lesson of self-love is simply to never stop practicing it, applying
Year’s End is a Mindfulness Moment
The end of the year is a time of reflection. We go through cycles of gratitude, fasting, celebrating, traveling, resting and hopefully forgiving. There’s closure and promise. The new year’s afoot! And there’s grabbing. Grabbing stuff. Accumulating things. Yet more
The Reiki Precepts as a Guide for Our Times
There are pivotal times. This is one of them. Reiki provides much guidance for today. We’re all here together, no matter where we might be in the spectrum. Hurricane Harvey didn’t happen only in Texas. Fukushima wasn’t isolated. Now chemicals
Take Inner Care
We’re halfway through 2017. The Atlantic Hurricane season has begun. The USA backed out of the Paris Climate Agreement. England has been hit by senseless attacks, as well as Kabul and other places. US Domestic policy is stalled and foreign
The Space of Being
What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and clam enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no
Compilation of Heart Posts
Running a blog is a varied experience, and when to publish what depends on many things. Sometimes the writing comes from inspiration, sometimes it’s a creative light bulb, often it answers questions that are asked a lot, and many times