What is prayer? When life brings you to your knees, you know it is time to pray. When life challenges you to the point that you feel overwhelmed, and you feel that absolutely no one could understand, and you just blurt it out to something, someone – something greater – asking for perspective, for help…that … More Praying to find harmony
The full moon is tomorrow evening, October 23rd. I posted earlier this month about the significance of 10-10-10, and thus I (and hopefully you) have already been tuned in to the shifting energies in the month of October. Seven years ago (and Clarissa Pinkola Estes in her book Women Who Run With the Wolves says … More The “Ducks Flying Moon” on October 23rd
10-10-10 has been dubbed an auspicious day by the founders of global environmental and spiritual events. The Power of One is sponsoring “The Inauguration of a New Civilization” with a day-long event in Washington, DC. They are hoping to use the day as a launching pad for this mission: 10.10.10 Humanity’s Date with Destiny is … More The importance of 10-10-10
We have lost touch with the sacredness of sound, and the majority of us find ourselves surrounded by discordant, machine-induced sounds that cause disharmony rather than harmony of body and spirit. Most of the cultures who are more consciously tied to the earth use the power of song and dance to connect to each other … More Sacred Sound
What a fantastic video of a frog just missing a dragonfly for dinner – I had to put the link here. This is in extreme slow motion. Click here to play. Here it is from another angle. Additionally, here is another video, again from Andrew Mountcastle, of two dragonflies flying. And while we’re at it … More Dragonfly video
Modern day spirituality is evolving right along with society. We have surpassed the time when individuals were duped into thinking that the only way to the divine was through an institutional church or a priest. It seems analogous to the many changes we have seen with the “Age of Information”: the individual is empowered. We … More The mystical path
Jonathan Ellerby, the spiritual director of Canyon Ranch Resort in Arizona, has written a beautiful book called Return to the Sacred. In it, he identifies 12 time-tested ways to connect spiritually to a greater power or being. These paths are routes that must be followed consistently over time in order to truly benefit and connect … More 12 paths to the Divine
Steven Pressfield, the author whom I referenced in my last post, writes in his book The War of Art that we can achieve security in one of two ways: by our rank within a hierarchy or by our connection to a territory (147). All animals live in one of these ways, he explains, though, interestingly … More Live territorially, not hierarchically
Steven Pressfield, the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, as well as others, has written an inspirational book about getting off your duff and into the writer’s seat (or getting to the artist’s easel, the dance floor, the gym, whatever it is you know is good for you). … More Conquering the Resistance to becoming better
Be light. Connect with spirit every day. Be grateful for your food. Be grateful for each breath you take. Walk lightly on the earth. Radiate. Love everything you can as much as you can for as long as you can. Give as much as you receive, and do both whole-heartedly. Relax your shoulders. Exhale fully. … More 32 of the best things I know
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