“Does a flower, full of beauty, light and loveliness say, ‘I am giving, helping, serving?’ It is! And because it is not trying to do anything it covers the earth.”  -Krishnamurti Living a fully present life we can be reminded of great wisdom in the simplest of things. From a hurried glance one might see…

For so many people the beginning of a new year signifies a chances to get things started on new footing. We make promises to ourselves with the hopes of creating meaningful change in our lives. “I will eat healthier. Make better decisions involving finances. No more 80 hour work weeks. I will call my family…

“You can never know who you are, you can only know what you’re not. It is coming out of what you are not that is key.” These are the very first words my mentor instilled in me. He shared them with me the first day we met for meditation.  He continued to repeat this phrase…

We have various means (or levels) of communicating messages to one another. Three that come to mind for the sake of writing this entry are: spoken word, action, and being.  You’d be hard pressed to find an individual who never heard the infamous phrase, “Do as I say not as I do”. I grew up…

“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. – This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about…

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind: yet, strange, I am grateful to all of those teachers. – Khalil Gibran Who are your greatest teachers? Who appears to be causing you the most disruption? Who gives you the greatest opportunity to demonstrate acceptance? Our greatest opportunities…