Dear Lisa, I can not fully express my gratitude to you for inserting the “ear sed” while we were at the Castlegar airport as I began my journey to Toronto for Christmas. I have been a most reluctant flier...
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Stress is the hottest topic this time of the year. One of the best things I have done, when the stress is quite high is to take a break and refocus my mind. How, when there is so much...
With everything that one does, one is on a constant search for happiness or wellbeing. Wellbeing is a state characterized by health, happiness and prosperity or a good and satisfactory condition of existence. We can change our wellbeing through...
Why not? Life has ups and downs. The ocean does not fight against its waves. At it’s depths it remains calm and stable. Why then do we resist our difficulties and only want the good experiences ? The other...
Lessons in humility. The other day I was attempting to explain a problem with a package that was returned because of a wrong address. When I started to clarify the error, I was met with instant aggression and a...
Finding Calm During Chaos. If we are not aware, life can toss us up and down without mercy as if we we’re in a stormy sea, we will be blown as leaves, branches, and twigs are blown in a...
In two weeks I will be starting a one week silent meditation retreat. I recall my first weekend retreat in which I didn’t really understand the meaning behind retreat. I kept thinking that a spa vacation might have been...
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa I wonder why we guard ourselves against experiencing closeness with those we don’t know. We live in a small community...
Can you see the cloud on this page? This is a question that Thich Nhat Hanh asks in a discussion of our interdependence. Click here for the full excerpt. “If you are a poet, you will see clearly that...