“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 [...]

“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, [...]

“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 [...]

“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 [...]

“There comes a time in your life when you finally get it… “ There comes a time in your life when you finally get it… When in the midst of all your fears and insanity you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out- ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying [...]

” … the sunrise this morning, the beauty of a new day “ Zen Moments asked our

“Nothing happens next. This is it.” The Grass-is-Greener Syndrome: Challenges to Being Present Have you ever had an experience like this: you might be walking on a beautiful wooded trail, or watching a sunset over water, or relaxing with good friends at the end of a day’s work; you are doing something at least mildly [...]

“There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost “ WORDS ON SOLITUDE AND SILENCE “Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory [...]

“In making our minds up, we set them up to be broken down. We create the conditions for doubt by trying to create certainty.” Once upon a time I knew what I wanted out of life. I knew where I was going. I was going to be a Great Inventor. And I revelled in that [...]

With a worried look on her face she asked me: “What did I do wrong?” This is something I wrote for a lady in Sri Lanka who decided she wanted to develop her meditation practice in daily life. She resolved to bring more mindfulness into ordinary day-to-day activities. So she set out to go shopping [...]