“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” – Rainer Maria Rilke How can you find […]
I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. — Thich Nhat Hanh * Our dear friend Tina talked to us today about how much she loves the Kai Chi Do movement called “Holding Center while the World Goes Round”. The truly magical […]
The chimney is getting a makeover today. It’s mental health feng shui. We’re catching up on home repairs. The cracks in the chimney finally came to the surface of my consciousness. It’s been crumbling for months. I remember glancing up when I walked the dogs, and seeing the cracks, and it was like only my […]
Move and the way will open. — Zen proverb * We talk to so many people who avoid their spiritual practices when they are feeling lousy. Then they regret not doing them, and feel guilty and then feel worse and feeling worse is more immobilizing and…they’re stuck in the struggle. Call it spiritual procrastination. Procrastination […]
I started Kai Chi Do last Sunday in crabby mode. I’d been crabby for a couple of days actually. I was just feeling frustrated – Stuff had come up during the week that needed my attention, and I kept reordering my To-Do priorities each day, and the things I really wanted to be doing kept […]