The Power of Prayer

Where there is prayer, there is much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer. – Andrew Murray All I know is when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don’t pray they don’t happen. – Dan Hayes...

No Mud, No Lotus

No Mud, No Lotus Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world with a lot of tenderness. – Thich Nhat Hanh Above photo taken by Denyse...

Bumble Bee Breath to Ease What Ails You

Inhale, MMMMMMMM. I practice bumble bee breath in tune with the army of leaf blowers who are clearing the common area where I live.  I woke up depressed and out of sorts because of a number of things going on in my life.  When the leaf blowers start too early their...

A Walk In the Woods

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau Above photo credit Erin Arvella –...

Getting Out of Our Own Way

“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the...