Tag: joy

We Do Have Love, Thank You for Reminding me! A couple nights ago I posted a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti which said “There have been 15,000 wars in the last 5000 years and there is still no love, no compassion.” Just before I posted this I had spent about an hour reading fear-based posts from… Continue reading Got Love?

“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall back apart. Then they come back together and then fall… Continue reading Allow More Room

There is nothing I enjoy more than curling up with a good book. Add a little lightning, a rhythmic rainfall, and a couple of comfortable pillows and bliss is unavoidable. I love to read. It is something I did not discover until I was in the Army at age 23. Throughout all the years of… Continue reading Where the Rubber Meets the Road

I saw a celebrity, recently, who told the interviewer, “I can honestly say that I have almost no ego left.” The interviewer just sort of nodded and added something like, “You have been on this path for a very long time.” I found myself just laughing. I like the person who was being interviewed and… Continue reading Egoless, Seriously?

How do we start each day, new? How do we move into and through this day with the innocence of a child, without allowing our story to influence every decision we make? What does it mean to look at life as if one was a child? Have you ever asked someone “What’s new in your… Continue reading Rekindling our Sense of Awe

On Disappointment My daughter called me last night. She sounded so exhausted. She was experiencing, in her words, “The worst day of her life.” Not only had results from auditions yielded less than what she desired, she had broken a key, and taken personally, an instructor’s decisions. I felt so sad when I got off… Continue reading Disappointment is Temporary

Recently I had the opportunity to sit at dinner with a nun I had never met. She tickled me by voicing an internal conflict she was entertaining: whether or not her double chocolate brownie would violate her commitment for lent. This inner dialogue, which she shared with us, seemed to cause her some discomfort. Being… Continue reading Joy is a Right