Surrendering to Life

Give yourself over to the world and in that surrender be reborn.

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Breaking Free of the Trance

It’s been a couple of weeks since my return from Ecuador.  In that time, I have spent time journaling about my time there, what I learned and attempting to integrate the experience. I have concluded that I need to travel outside of my geographical location and most importantly, my comfort zone more often.  It’s as [...]

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We are the ones…

I am in Ecuador where the land speaks of abrupt change and a dynamic movement that is hard to describe.  It is both disturbing and mesmerizing. I stood at La Mitad del Mundo, the Middle of the Earth at 0 longitude, 0 latitude as I wondered what might become of us as a human community [...]

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The Impermanence of Me – A RUMI quote

I don’t even know if I am or I am not. When I think I am, I find myself worthless, when I think I am not, I find my value. Like my thoughts, I die and rise again each day. ~Rumi♥

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To Be Who You Are Is More Than Enough

“It is easy to be the person you have always been, for it requires no change, no self-reflection, and no growth. It may appear that changing yourself requires giving up something. In reality, there is no need to give up anything – you simply add to what has been.” Taro Gold in Open Your Mind, [...]

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From Free Fall to Glorious Flight

A little inspiration if you feel like life is moving too fast.  Stay present. “We’re in a free fall into the future. We don’t know where we’re going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you’re going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell [...]

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A St. Patrick’s Day Blessing

“Beannacht” by John O’Donahue (Blessing)   May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours, may the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow wind work these words 
of love around you, an invisible cloak 
to mind [...]

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For International Women’s Day

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”  Woman defined as “the Other”~ Simone de Beauvoir, Second Sex, 1949, French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, political activist, feminist theorist and social theorist. Makes you go hmmmm….

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Wisdom 2.0 Conference Day Two

The Wisdom 2.0 Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The conference addresses the great challenge of our age: to not only live [...]

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Wisdom 2.0 Conference Day One

It’s 1030pm PST right now (I started writing an hour ago) but my East Coast body is telling me it’s later.  The energy from the day is still here so I’m in the lobby of the Sofitel Hotel, having a glass of wine and doing what I know will release some of the energy – [...]

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