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“Instead of thinking about the myriad negative feelings you want to avoid and the myriad things you can buy or do in service of that, think about a single organizing principle that is [...]

“Added up, objects become clutter. Clutter becomes noise. And noise—in all of its forms—blocks spiritual growth, starting with an inability to simply feel happy. Happiness needs [...]

Dear Sisters… It’s no secret that women have a critical role to play in shaping the future. The Dalai Lama’s proclamation that “the world will be saved by the Western [...]

“The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit in it.” –Edward Deming Andrews. Why do [...]

All our window shades needed replacing in the living room. The resulting effect of a temporary half-curtain treatment has been a stunning revelation. What we see now is none of the usual [...]

“…Don’t go see someone who is irritating. Take a day off from work if you feel tired. Go to the beach if it calls you. Listen to more of the music that pleases you. Soothe yourself in any way [...]

Enjoy these spacious contemplations to inspire a **clear** new year: “What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, [...]

“I always feel that somehow you have to reframe that bad feeling – so that you see it as a doorway to liberation, as an opening to the vast blue sky.” –Pema Chödrön   [...]

  “Take an interest in your pain and your fear. Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment, experience the feelings without labels, beyond being good or bad. Welcome them. [...]

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. –Pema Chödrön I often use the metaphor of the weather to teach a key principle of letting go I call spacious detachment. It [...]