Lately I have been noticing that life is fragile. I think this line of thoughts is a natural evolution occurring because of the recent pandemic and a new view of how rapidly things can change. How the world as I know and experience it can simply vanish depending on circumstances. Stability is contingent and very... Continue Reading →

If you are living in fear and anxiety about the future because of what happened in your past, you'll end up losing what you have in the present. - Anonymous When I find myself caught up and living in the past, I refocus my attention on what''s right in front of me. What I notice... Continue Reading →

"I get by with a little help from my friends!" The Beatles from "Yellow Submarine." Dedicated to Judith Nuertey at True Self. Thank you for the nomination my friend! Judith lives in Ghana and I fell in love with her statement in the "About me" section, "I am a lover of freedom and believe in... Continue Reading →

We have so much information and input in general that our interactions are starting to reduce themselves to  simple memes and soundbites. Cognitive bias has become the conditioned mechanism for filtering and containing information. It seems we are attracted to, and remember, only those things that support our conclusions and avoid that which disagrees. It... Continue Reading →

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live." - Dali Lama No matter what view we take of our world, now is the only time we can actually... Continue Reading →

Much of our ability to experience everything with an open and new view relies on the idea of acceptance. Can I accept that life keeps changing? Can I live in the acceptance that both I and events are never the same from moment to moment? Can I accept the absolute beauty of the moment in which... Continue Reading →

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world. - 14th Dali Lama I am always practicing coming back to the first person perspective. When I notice something happening "Out... Continue Reading →

I have this belief system that says, if I pay attention, anyone I meet will have something to offer, a gift, information, feelings, and perhaps a different reference frame on life. I have a friend, a Dharma sister named Jacqui, who gave me this view. We all meet other people who appear to be doing... Continue Reading →

Sometimes there’s a worry, that if we are not keeping up with every extracted soundbite, meme, and newest buzzwords from our latest belief system, that we will somehow be existing out of touch with life. It as if we have become so desperate to both know and appear to know that we have let go... Continue Reading →

It's so easy to get caught up in living via my ideas about life instead of being present where life is actually in movement. Perhaps the most difficult action is the act of stopping right where you are, bring attention to the breath and body, and see what's directly in front of you clearly. Doing... Continue Reading →