The Light Within You

You have extraordinary treasures within you...and bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small. Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic. Creative Living Beyond Fear Our …

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this (good) life by Katrina Kenison

I wrote about Katrina Kenison's book Magical Journey here.  This is her most recent blog post entitled "this (good) life", which offers such an inspiring, poignant and soul-filling message: joy and heartache can co-exist; remember to see the sacred in the now, the blessings of today. Here it is.  Enjoy 🙂

What Matters Most? An Exercise to Determine Your Values.

I've been taking some time to read (memoirs like Home Grown. Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World by Ben Hewitt. and Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan, cookbooks like Gwyneth Paltrow's, It's All Good, and Jenny Rosenstrach's Dinner the Playbook. And another book, which defies easy description, entitled, A Hidden Wholeness. The …

Life Purpose Vol. III

Exploring my life purpose has been an ongoing project which intensified over the last couple of years.  A few months ago, I re-discovered a book I bought a couple of years ago called Live Your Life Purposeby Dorothy Ratusny. Ms. Ratusny provided the following questions which I found to be very helpful.  Get your journal out, dear people, and …

Just this side of Too Far Gone

I've been thinking about writing this post for a long while.  I actually started writing it last November and then left it as a draft.  As often happens over time, feelings soften and you gain perspective and maybe that was what I was intuitively waiting for. I also questioned my motivation for writing about my experience and …

What is “Parallel You” up to?

I had a science fiction-y idea a while ago that goes something like this.  Imagine that, in addition to your existence here on planet Earth, you have a parallel existence, a "Parallel You", living on another plane, alongside planet Earth you.  Now, maybe Planet Earth you has a partner and children, or not, and goes …

Life Purpose

Life purpose is a topic that often comes to mind.  It's usually about me questioning whether what I'm doing, and what I've done so far, is enough or important enough.  And the big question, ultimately, is whether at the end of my days, I'll be content that I've spent my days well and contributed something of …

Happiness in the Here and Now.

One of the topics discussed in Thich Nhat Hanh's book Peace is Every Breath is "Contemplating Aimlessness".  He says, Contemplating aimlessness helps us stop feeling compelled to go around seeking after this and that, exhausting ourselves mentally and physically. Aimlessness means not chasing after anything, not setting any more objects in front of ourselves to …