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Mindful Multitasking
Noted ADHD expert Dr. Ari Tuckman has said: “You don’t have to have ADHD to feel like you have ADHD. The world has become so distracting that everyone is working harder to stay focused.” (Understand Your Brain, Get More Done) I think sometimes we want to find a simple reason
Welcoming New Energy
Spring is around the corner, and, for many of us, it feels as if a new energy wants to move into our lives. Perhaps there are new things we’d like to accomplish, plans we’d like to make. But to welcome in this new energy, we need to make some space.
Third Beauty
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. –Joanna Macy I had a dream a while ago. I was on the phone and said something about “third beauty,” then laughed. When I woke and remembered the dream, another phrase came to mind, “third age.” Third age, I thought,
Climbing Over Limitations
What does Focus and Transcend mean? Focus in Latin means hearth or fireplace. When we focus, we shine the light of our attention on whatever we would like to bring warmth, energy, or life to. Transcend comes from the Latin transcendere, meaning to climb over. Through better directing our focus,
Awakening to Beauty
I see these things with an intense joy, and while I observe, there is no observer, only a beauty that is almost like love. For an instant, I am absent, my self and my problems, my anxieties, my troubles; nothing but this wonder exists. -Krishnamurti During the Italian Renaissance,
Transitions
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Hellen Keller For the past twelve years I have been immersed in Renaissance Italy, and Venice in particular. Over
Life Goes On
In the life of the spirit, we are always at the beginning. Amour a l’affut (Love on the Lookout) I read this quote many years ago and have forgotten where or who said it; but it has stayed with me and often comes to mind. Probably it pops up when
Pothos
An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed by beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. From The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas
Getting Guidance from a Tree
The life of the world, innate in everything, is clearly propagated into plants and trees, like the body-hair and tresses of its body. -Marsilio Ficino We can say that the earth has a vegetative soul. -Leonardo da Vinci Promise me that when I die, I shall be buried near–as near
On Outer Beauty, Inner Joy
Outer Beauty, Inner Joy: Contemplating the Soul of the Renaissance began from my love of going to Italy, loving what I saw and felt, and wanting to know and understand more. I’ve always been a student of religion and spirituality, even when I was a child. My interest centered mainly
