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Good Eye
Once, at a conference, I noticed a man striding toward me, his face alight (Marc Ian Barasch tells the story in his fine book, Field Notes on the Compassionate Life). He seemed really happy to see me, but I didn’t have a clue who he was. When he got closer, he pushed his [...]
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The Seven Wonders
The first grade class assignment: to name the seven wonders of the world. Each student compiles a list, and shares their list, aloud, with the class. There is ardent interaction as the students call out entries from their lists: the Pyramids, the Empire State Building, the Amazon River, Yellowstone National Park, [...]
Pause Reminders
“You are now running on reserve power and your screen has been dimmed. Please plug in your power adapted to begin recharging the battery. OK?”
—message on an my Apple Computer PowerBook screen
A few months ago I spent a delightful day with an ecumenical women’s group in La Verne, California. These are women whose plates were [...]
Contest
I used to have this appetite for my life, and it’s just gone. I want to go someplace where I can marvel at something. Elizabeth Gilbert
It’s interesting that whenever I suggest “pause” in any retreat or workshop, people automatically say, “Great! Count me in! Now tell me the five steps!”
I understand that, because there’s [...]
A Notice Break
Foxglove “bells” in my garden
Notice is a good verb.
Every once in while today, stop what you’re doing, just “to notice.”
Who knows what you might see. Or hear. Or taste. Or smell. Or touch.
If someone asks, tell them you are taking a “noticing break,” because it’s been recommended by 9 out of 10 doctors.
(And the 10th [...]
The sounds of children
“Don’t you blog anymore?” I was asked at a recent workshop.
“I have been on a blogging hiatus.” I answer.
She gives me strange look.
“Okay,” I tell her. “I changed my brand from ‘do less,’ to ‘blog less and live more.”
“But that’s not funny,” she tells me.
“Okay,” I say. “I’ll change it back.”
I have blogged less for [...]
Self-Care
If it ain’t in you, it can’t come out of your horn. Charlie Parker
Care of any kind—compassion, generosity, communication, forgiveness, reconciliation, service, ministry, teaching, giving—begins with and is nourished by self-care.
Self-care, meaning Self-compassion.
But here’s the deal: We don’t do that well in this culture.
We do self-improvement.
We do self-growth.
We do self-mastery.
Because we live in a world [...]
Tender home of your soul
Silence is really vital to the human heart.
You see the human heart can’t live with
Constant sound or noise.
It needs silence in order to heal itself.
The only two things that are ultimately required for spiritual
homecoming are stillness and silence
If in your day you can build little windows of silence
and little windows of stillness
You will never lose [...]
Rediscover wonder
A bench in Bordeaux, France
In my winter garden–now sodden and weary–a visitor said to me, “There’s not much to see here, is there?” “True,” I told him, “But it all depends on what you are looking for.”
For if you look up, you will see the filigreed canopy created by our 150-foot [...]
Inner Fire