During the book tour visit to the East West Bookshop in Seattle, (a fantastic place, where you just feel more peaceful by walking in the door), a gentleman from the audience asked this question: Can you be accepting of what is and still take action in life? In other words, isn’t every action a result [...]
Notes from the Book Tour: It’s been a fast-paced few weeks since the launch of Imperfect Spirituality: Extraordinary Enlightenment for Ordinary People Nov. 1 in Portland. I’ve been to San Francisco and throughout Marin County, Seattle, Vancouver B.C. and Los Angeles with more stops on the schedule. I’ve met scores of people during workshops and [...]
One of the things that makes a practice of gratitude so powerful is that it requires us to stop and draw on other positive feelings before we become conscious to what we are truly grateful for. In other words, to be grateful for the beautiful landscape, you’ve got to pause long enough to notice it [...]
I’m hosting Thanksgiving dinner this week. We’ll have the usual turkey, and green bean stuff and potatoes. And I’m already trying to figure out how to get the shopping done, the house cleaned and the details put together, while meeting my work deadlines. I don’t feel stressed about it, but, I generally do feel a [...]
I dropped a box of sweet and sour pork on the floor today. My white refrigerator became a piece of abstract art, red sauce dripping down its door. Course it matched the saucing running down the cabinets and the puddle on the floor. Sweet and sour everywhere isn’t all that sweet. I wanted to throw [...]
Every week when I sit down to write my blog posts, I get to thinking. About myself or an experience I’ve had. About a lesson I’ve learned or a truth I’m trying to understand. About an aspect of myself or a relationship I want to strengthen or improve. And in order to understand all this, [...]
I’ve heard it said that reading is a meditation. I get that. I use it for mine too. And though I also sit in silence and watch my thoughts in the traditional fashion, reading leaves me feeling expansive, connected inspired. The sensations I experience while reading a good book create a kind of creative momentum [...]
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