Cold spring — I think the first time I can remember someone using the phrase the elephant in the room was during some group counseling sessions I participated in when I was going through my divorce. For me, at the time, the elephant stood for the fact that my wife, after two children together, twelve years of marriage, and five years of courtship before that, decided to come out of the closet and dump me for he...
Cold spring — Our thoughts can have a tendency to act as a veil over what we see preventing us from seeing with fresh eyes or beginner’s mind. What comes into view is identified by thinking, and then categorized a...
Cold spring — Through continued practice of mindfulness one can experience moments of overwhelming, limitless belonging, and moments of universal communion with the Cosmos. Every human being can be a special kind ...
Cold spring — Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and lovi...
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Thirty)Judging: can lead to a day filled with pain.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-nine)The Welcoming Prayer: focus and sink in; welcome; and let go
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-eight)Sorrow: sometimes it is this that awakens us!
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-seven) Which Will You Follow: The path of fear or the path of love?
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-six) Delusions of Separateness : we are part of a larger whole, interconnected to all things.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-five) Fear : lies at the root of all trouble
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-four) Nowness : the only thing we really have is now.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-three)Unity : relationship is the essence of existence.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-two) Sensations : your awareness of is different from actually being you.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty-one) Mystic Experience : an experience of communion with Ultimate Reality
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Nineteen) Spirituality : humankind is predestined to discover the spiritual patterns of the universe
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Eighteen) Blessings come from care, troubles from carelessness.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Twenty) Gratuitous : the universe is gratis, it cannot be earned nor need it be earned.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Seventeen) Gratitude : we cannot be mindful without being grateful.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Sixteen) Lovingkindness Meditation: what you give you receive.
Mindfulness on Hermit Lake (Day Fifteen) The Breath: reminds us to tune into our body and this moment now.