Some wise advice from a meditation master about a pragmatic approach to inner peace, just in time for the election.
Category: Inspiration
(re)Fractions & the Future
Reflections on a reflecting lake about gratitude, politics, fractions, and the future.
Away from fear is love
Our fears manifest when love is non-pursued. To abjure the former, pursue the latter among many more.
Gratitude: the abject undeserving
This is going to seem counterintuitive to everything you have learned about self-confidence and self-esteem, but if you want to catapult into gratitude, become undeserving.
Go lightly – 3 examples
Three examples of advice about going lightly on oneself and others. Sometimes we have to examine the rigid patterns that our stories of ourselves have us locked into, and deviate somewhat.
Waving away workaholism
The time has come for me to do the most terrifying thing in the world of the workaholic: ask for help, before it is too late.
Balance your reign
A very neat app on the App Store (and available for other platforms) called Reigns (iPhone/iPad or Android) had me thinking about survivability and keeping things in balance. In the game, you don’t let any of your four factions get too strong or too weak. That’s a pretty good rule for life, in line with Taoist thought.
Prince Ea: Row YOUR boat
This video is my new favorite to show people. I love the message of both personal responsibility and positive outlook. It is amusing, informative and cheerful. Please watch.
Grateful
It’s just a picture I took this morning.
It speaks for itself.
It is well (by faith, not fact)
Reflections on the ministry teaching of telling others “It is well” and how it creates paradoxes, contradictions and necessary inconsistencies in my life.
Here is the song I was talking about in the video. It is not the traditional version. It is a modern version I like a lot.
The traditional melody and lyric is here, also beautiful:
