Best Laid Plans

Life sometimes gets in the way of even the best laid plans. Our desires and intentions aren’t always in alignment with the trajectory of reality that results from everything that’s preceded this moment. It’s normal to feel disheartened or...

Finding the Gift

Though often hidden, every experience in your life holds a gift for you. Even physical and emotional pain can serve you. Before you try to mask, heal or otherwise ameliorate any condition, take a moment to turn your awareness toward the issue. Ask yourself what this...

What You Need

The present moment comes with everything you need. While there’s nothing wrong with desires, they come from projecting into the future. When you are fully present and able to appreciate the bounty all around you, you require nothing else because you’re...

Be The Change

Arguing with reality is a waste of time and energy. The countless causes that coalesced to create this moment just as it is, have already cooked the recipe. We’re free to create something different, but that effort is better served without adding the lingering...

What Is Perfect?

There are many versions of perfect. What works for each human being is unique. Ultimately, perfect is in the eye of the beholder. As long as you judge anything as imperfect, you can’t fully appreciate it. But, if you changed your idea of perfect to match...

What’s the Lesson?

The rhyme and reason of everyday life often escapes us when we’re in the thick of it. That’s why it behooves us to adopt a positive attitude that benefits us and feels good. There are many ways to look at experiences that didn’t seem to work out the...