Accepting What Seems Unacceptable
Background: Accepting What Seems Unacceptable: on a recent trip to Mongolia (after an 11 hour flight from Vancouver to Seoul, an eight hour layover, and a four hour flight to the capital city, Ulaanbaatar), after our dawn arrival, our family group assumed we might have a day to rest and recover. Not so! After a traditional...
Questions of worth and value: What about deserving?
Questions of worth and value: What about deserving? Much of my life I have, I think “struggled” is not too strong a word, with the question of worthiness: Am I OK? Am I doing enough? Am I enough? How do I know? And one could even ask, Do I deserve the gifts I have received? Pondering...
I Wouldn’t Have Seen It If I Hadn’t Believed It
“I wouldn’t have seen it if I hadn’t believed it.“ This quote by Marshall McLuhan struck me, it’s a powerful turnabout from the usual familiar hack that “seeing is believing”. It offers an exciting link to the new information from the fields of quantum physics, from some spiritual teachings, from the mind-body connection work that has made such...
Seeing with New Eyes
The phrase “seeing with new eyes” comes to me as we approach the month of May, delighting in the height of spring — this overflowing, verdant time of opening, ripening, flowering; greens that burst on the scene in many shades and shapes; animals singing and frolicking; days longer and warmer, things to feel, smell, sense, walk...
Acceptance, Enjoyment, Enthusiasm: A Trio to Try
Acceptance, enjoyment, enthusiasm: a trio to try. I like the flow of these words, the sanguine effect of reading and feeling the words on my soul, in my mind and body :-). I feel pleasantly light, noticing a bubbly energy, and my heart is open. Here’s a bit of back story to this post. Mike...
