Building Your Practice from the Ground Up
If you’re like most people, you may have to think for a second to remember what they were. There are so many jokes about resolutions because the universal human tendency is to drop them. Read More
Category: Spirituality
Whose Thoughts Are These? Addiction, Recovery and Buddhism
When I was in my freshman year in college, I had a professor of English who liked to start the first class of the semester with the question, “What are the books that changed your life?” Not “What books did you enjoy, or really love,” but “changed your life.” Read More
A WINTER WORLD OF HOLIDAYS
However we say it—and there are many different ways—the idea of “happy” combined with “holidays” is a very, very old one. Read More
THANKFULNESS
I don’t know about you, but I definitely have days when I just don’t feel all that thankful or grateful, when the guy when sits next to me on the bus drips water all over my previously dry pants, a favorite store is unexpectedly out of business, or my doctor tells me to avoid a favorite food. Read More
SAD with the Seasons?
The great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas—yes, that guy, the one that singer/ songwriter Bob Dylan took the name from—wrote in his most famous poem, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Read More
How Self-acceptance Can Improve your health
The practice of self-development can be sought in both internal and external factors. In regard to our health it is important to look beyond behavior modifications and at the self that is contributing to our choices. Read More
PEACE IN RECOVERY
PEACE. Pax. Shalom. Salaam. Every language has a word for it. We have images and signs for it, the peace sign being one of the most recognized in the world. Read More
A Mission of Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to experiences occurring in the present moment. Read More
Sobriety and Spirituality: Keys to Recovery
If so, you’re in good company. Greater numbers all of people all over the world are identifying themselves this way. And, as a friend of mine said recently, “it’s not a good time to be in the religion business.” Read More
Animal Companions On the Path
Growing up in rural Connecticut with all kinds of animals, wild and domestic, I’d had plenty of experience to convince me how smart animals were, but I hadn’t seen anything quite like this. Read More
Ways of Action
Alan Watts, philosopher and popularizer of Eastern spiritual ideas to the West, observed that “everyone’s a philosopher; most are poor ones.” Read More
“Renewal at Nature’s New Year” (or “Anybody Can Meditate!”)
I’ve never really understood why we make resolutions in the dead of winter, at the darkest, coldest time of the year. Or even why we celebrate the New Year at that time, just because Julius Caesar said so and had the calendar set up that way. Read More