Giving thanks for all we have in our lives...and the related feeling of gratitude...is one of the most powerful tools we have to use as human beings. Maintaining a grateful disposition improves virtually everything in our lives, including our health and well-being, and our relationships with others. Being grateful opens our hearts and displaces
We found this quote from The Secret Daily Teachings by Rhonda Byrne and we love it! We all have the power to affect change and it starts with creating peace, love, and harmony within ourselves. "Change in a country begins with one person. Each country reflects the inner peace or turmoil of its mass
We speak to you now As ones, who like you, Are much younger than The Mountains Sustained by the same Water And the same Sun And both blessed to be In this place of wonder, We have been asked to tell you To
There may be nothing on Earth each of us wants more from others than Kindness! I was recently thinking about the Celebrate Kindness! free community event Lisa and I hosted in our town of Bellingham, Washington last July 23, 2011. We have discussed whether or not we would host another Kindness event
Our good friend James Bauckman made this video at our Mayan Gateway Ceremony for the Mayan New Dawn on December 21, 2012. Enjoy!
What if there is nothing wrong with the world? What if there is nothing “out there” that needs to be fixed? What if all is already in a state of perfection? Such questions epitomize the apex of ridiculousness―naively insensitive and insanely idealistic―if we base our views on what is in the news, what we
How do you define your value? How do you quantify what you are worth? Be honest - what's the first answer that came to you? Is your value how much money you have? Is your value your social status, your neighborhood, your house, your job, your car? Is your value your family and how
I came to see the largest stone circle in the world and found destiny asking me if I wanted to dance again like I did in the long summer of a century lost. Holding palms upward to the silent sky, the gift is accepted and the sun lays down behind the far hill to rest.
Laying on my back, it's blue sky instead of buildings, clouds instead of city, treetops instead of passing people. I don't need to see the grass under my grateful back to luxuriate in its gentle, gracious, gliding green.
A day of introspection gives us space to courageously, gently, lovingly peer into ourselves. We can view and appreciate the good we have done and acknowledge and forgive ourselves for any words or actions which do not honor us.
The early light that heralds the coming sun so gently pulses, and this majestic emanation causes the jaw to drop and an “Ah” to utter. The outer beauty of the world and the inner beauty of the soul are harmonized – majesty within and without.
Spiritual practice is our individualized way of learning to live in the ever-present now. And spiritual practice is, as we all know, a very personal matter. Ultimately it is about whatever works for us individually. But what about when things are not working so well? How about when we find ourselves at
