"If you are depressed, you are living in the past, if you are anxious, you are living in the future, if you are at peace, you are living in the present." - Lao Tzu I love this, except I don't agree that living in the present is necessarily peaceful. When I am paying attention to... Continue Reading →

Whatever has or may happen, it’s not happening right now. I find it's critical to keep reminding myself in various ways of this point several times a day. It's so easy to get caught up in the stream of thought, and by the attention, it becomes my world. All those worries and thoughts about the future.... Continue Reading →

I am never positively sure if what I mean is what you get or what you mean is what I understand. Lately I've been noticing how often I misunderstand others. I recently realized that the emotional content and my attachment can shut down understanding and comprehension about what someone is attempting to tell me. After... Continue Reading →

"At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening." - Anonymous There is a tendency, at least in the spiritual communities, to present this as some kind of choice. So the "choice" is to either live in a fantasy world built on delusional... Continue Reading →

"When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breath, let go and live in these moments." - Anonymous And the odd thing is none of us is in control. We don't need to let go of anything, we can't, we don't have anything to let go of. Rather... Continue Reading →

I often take a second and ask myself, "How am I using and experiencing this finite resource called life?" If I stop and exit the treadmill of my stream of thought, and just breath and be in these moments, is there really anything else that needs to be added? What is it that constantly seeks... Continue Reading →

Teach children that it's valuable to just be here to experience life. Conscious Existence is the most valuable thing we know. There is always that conditioned drive to become something or somebody else, but it can become an obsession and destructive to self and others. But just being, and noticing, has a worth and value... Continue Reading →

"It takes both sides to build a bridge." - Fredrik Nael

"That's the amazing thing about all the different states of bodymind: They pass. They come, they go. Some of them linger, but they will change eventually. The art of living is not to make stories about any of them, because stories linger longer then the states they are describing. Much longer. For centuries sometimes." -... Continue Reading →

"When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it." - Jiddu Krishnamurti For me listening is an ongoing journey. I often find myself attending to the stream of thought... Continue Reading →