On Becoming

“You can’t force a rosebud to blossom by beating it with a hammer.” –Rachel Naomi Remen, MD In our home in Mexico we had a bougainvillea varietal that had no blooms. No matter [...]

Sleep Matters

“Tell me, is there any reason not to feel like you’re in heaven when you crawl into bed every night?” –A Year to Clear Whether or not you’re sleeping like a baby these [...]

S.T.O.P.

“How do you remain open instead of automatically going into defense mode?” That is the question that Oprah poses to Deepak Chopra. His response in this short video below could not be [...]

Stillness is Waiting

  “If you peel back the layers of your life – the frenzy, the noise – stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.”–Oprah. What is one thing that you can do right now that [...]

Joy Rising

If you read my last post you know that I am loving Oprah’s new program on her OWN network called Lifeclass. Every week night at 8 pm ET she showers us with inspirational messages: lessons, [...]

Serving Life

I just saw a profoundly moving documentary on OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) called “Serving Life.” It is a profile of prisoners at one of the toughest state penitentiaries who find a [...]