This is a quote from Deborah Gruenfeld’s video (14 minutes) on the body language of power. She offers some deep insights into how we interact with each other. How about offering some attention to yourself, just for a few moments today, while washing your hands or waiting for the elevator? And can you also notice…
“What ‘feels’ true might not actually be the truth, or good for us; it might merely be familiar. And, conversely, what feels ‘false’ might not be; it might just be new.” This relates to how we all get stuck in certain patterns of thinking, reacting, and doing. From Philippa Perry’s wonderful “How to Stay Sane”…
I wonder if monks living in a remote monastery are also challenged by digital distractions? Photo credit: friend and colleague Anna Bullard-Werner (taken last month during a solo backpacking trip)
This is a one minute meditation outside the Brooklyn Yoga School (3 bells to start, 1 bell to end) Do you love trees and poems? If so, this post is especially for you! Here is a passage of utter delight, from Robert Frost. You’ll find the title references the poem’s last line. “When I see…
“If you tarnish your perceptions by holding on to suffering that isn’t really there, you create even greater misunderstanding. One-sided perceptions like these create our world of suffering. We are like an artist who is frightened by his own drawing of a ghost. Our creation becomes real to us and even haunts us.” -Thich Nhat…
..you cannot have a lotus flower. Without suffering you cannot learn how to be compassionate and understanding. -Thich Nhat Hanh
Our 8 year old asks ‘Mama, could you please put helium in an air mattress, so I can fly it like a magic carpet?’ Were this possible, here’s the music that should accompany such a quixotic venture: Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” from 1716, played on a wooden xylophone in a Japanese forest. (if…