Zen Moments

“…the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry… the more peaceful our planet will be…”

“A powerful talk  – well worth 18 minutes”
Stroke Of Insight – Jill Bolte Taylor – Some Highlights…
“I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who has been diagnosed with a brain disorder, [...]

“Not-knowing is not easy, it’s not comfortable…”

“And what do you do?”
Back when I was 21, I was unemployed. I didn’t know what I wanted to do, and I hated that question.
“I’m unemployed” was the truth, but I would cringe each time I gave that answer. In those days maybe there was more of a stigma [...]

“…the answer is staring you in the face – if only you can see it”

Depression can appear to be without antidote. For years I struggled with it, even though I made a good living from my paintings and to the observer, my life typified the creative dream.
Horses had always been my passion and the accuracy [...]

“Just me and the water and the deepest blue sky above…”

It was the first time I had gone swimming. I wasn’t scared of the water but there was apprehension about going under and not getting my breath. So when my friend who was helping me learn to float told me to dunk my head in [...]

“It is through this creative process that we love and are loved…”

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don’t listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all – which is so important, too – to [...]

“It was palpable… I could feel his words…”

I had an amazing thing happen last week. It all started with an innocent email from an old friend sharing a highly “web-circulated” story of miraculous magnitude. I may have seen this story before, seemed familiar, but this time “The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget” hit me like [...]

“so many shadows whirl, one into another, in silence…”

I crossed the street with my boy. He was one and a half, so it was 3 months ago. We walked away from the grocery store and sat on a hill next to the old Barnes and Noble. We ate a bit of peanut butter and jelly [...]

“More than anything else, attention is the act of connection.”

The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain – the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as [...]

“I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty…”

An exerpt from “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron
“…Writing about attention, I see that I have written a good deal about pain. This is no coincidence. It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. [...]

“I used to be pushing and pushing to get ahead… but now I am like the Zen Warrior… It’s a completely calm existence…”

This short 7 minute video by Bill Beaty shows how he has learned to drive in dense traffic, leaving a long gap between himself and the car in front.
This reduces the need [...]