Inspiring

The brilliant poem below written by an eleventh grader from Brooklyn, NY is as powerful visual as I’ve ever seen on how our thoughts and words can change everything. Here’s the trick: [...]

“Let the past drift away in the water.” –Japanese saying Water features can put us in a delicious trance – like the fifteen-second video below that I made in a chapel atrium in [...]

This flower caught my eye at sunset the other day. The afternoon light was incredible, and there it was, doing its glorious thing of simply be-ing. I ran for my iPhone, zoomed in, and clicked. [...]

“Remember, consistency, not quantity, is the key to freedom and lasting change.”–Your Spacious Self When it comes to clearing anything that is holding us back, we need to be [...]

Three years ago, this special bugambilia varietal had no blooms. No matter what I did (new pot, more sun, gentle whispering) it just wouldn’t budge. Until this year, when we returned to our [...]

“Can you witness a disturbance without taking it personally? Can you feel discomfort without feeding the story that created it? What can you do on the spot to unplug from a drama that is [...]

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” –Alan W. Watts. Enjoy this excerpt from A Year to Clear: Realizing a dream, any [...]

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” –Henry David Thoreau. In my last five posts I’ve introduced a model for clearing that is infinitely more [...]

“Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson. In my last four posts I’ve introduced a model for clearing that is infinitely more sustainable and [...]

“Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” –Rashi. Over the past three weeks I’ve introduced a model for clearing that is infinitely more sustainable and lasting [...]