This playground
is meant for every person
who aspires to use all of life
––the brutal, the glorious, the just plain nuts––
to cultivate a well-honed heart,
one increasingly playful, loving and deep.
All part of the grand adventure of answering
life’s two most important questions:
What’s going on,
and what’s the healthiest action I can take
in this moment?
On Facebook, in response to the story of one more inhumane acton by some soulless politician, a Facebook friend posted a single word: “ENOUGH!” What do you suppose my friend really meant? What was the message? I think she was saying: “In this moment, I’m not able to free the magnitude of pain I feel.
Do you ever think that every event in your life is designed to help you live your life purpose, the core reason you’re alive? Maybe it’s like hide and seek. The universe embeds deep meaning in everything––licorice popcorn; the Serenity Prayer; or something really wacky: discovering that the stranger we met on a train can
❦ Sharing my discoveries and welcoming yours is the purpose of this little playground. I hope you’ll add your voice when it feels right. If you’d like to explore working together, click on Q&A, or visit my other website, CoolMindWarmHeart.com
The king of sore throats came to town that evening. By midnight, gargling an ocean of salt water had provided only modest relief.
Recently, my son, daughter, and 19 year-old grandson, who live together in Rochester, New York, upon returning home from an afternoon outing of several hours, discovered in their kitchen an umbrella they’d never before seen. How it got there when all doors had been securely locked was a mystery solved only after a half-hour of
A monk of my acquaintance for the past 20 years or so, a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of Self-Realization Fellowship in 1920, has recently been anointed president of that organization. His name is Brother Chidananda. He is a man of wisdom, wit and a deep, clear-minded understanding of the teachings Yogananda. At their
In my warm bed on a night approaching fall, I awake and look to check the time and find the bedroom electric clock blinking. Power had gone off and eventually back on. I decide to get up and reset the bedroom clock as well as the one on the kitchen stove. Returning, I snuggle in
Go deep. Be useful. That’s the mantra of my life in the world. The sign over the shop door, you might say. So when I think about how to begin these explorations into what I call the spirit of the universe, I’m confronted by the question: What is the most important thing I’ve learned in