“He will always be a part of my story,” I said as we stared out over the city from our mountaintop perch. “He brought my entire world to a halt and completely altered the course of my life. And while I may be able to remember everything from a distance now, I will never forget …
I met Rafi on a bright and sunny morning in the rainforest. He is a little man with black liquid eyes, dark skin and silver-white hair, a long-distance walker as people call him in his village in New Zealand because he is always hiking through the hills. He was born almost seventy years ago in …
Haven’t we all held a wish at one time or another that the person who hurt us — as he did with that cruel remark or angry action — could know what we felt in that moment of their thoughtlessness? Somehow we just know that if this person could be present in our aching heart …
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ~Paulo Coelho I have seven nieces and nephews and not a day goes by where I don’t find myself in awe of them. They constantly amaze me—the new things they learn, how they perceive the world, and the questions …
Parents can teach us a lot of lessons. Not all are helpful. But there is one lesson I wish my father had taught me before he died. Recently my mother told me about an episode that happened when I was six or seven years old. I had developed glandular fever and needed to be hospitalised. …
I’m good at goodbyes. And I should be, I’ve been saying them regularly since I was eight years old. When my parents divorced and we began the shuffle back and forth between houses. Saying goodbye to someone I loved became a normal weekly thing. I remember when I was leaving for college with my high …
The anatomy of the various human body parts has physical reasons for existing and psycho-emotional, energetic reasons for existing. These parts are interrelated throughout your life and play off of each other to create what you experience as what is called: “the time of your life.” In this play, your feet are the direction that your life …
What is Collective Consciousness? What is the “collective consciousness?” How is it created? How can it benefit our world, and when is our personal consciousness a part of that? When individuals work on understanding their consciousness, and start living a more mindful life, they are contributing to a higher consciousness that impacts others positively. Collective …
The Universe is not a linear event that can be studied, and proven out, through logic, or double blind studies. It’s both a hologram within countless holograms, and a mirror of your consciousness reflecting images and experiences from the programming of your evolutionary history and future destiny. Your consciousness is an assemblage of all these images and …
My mother and I shared a love of flowers. As a child I worked alongside my mother as she tended her gardens. Then when I was ten years old my father cleared a swath of our back yard so that I could have a garden of my own. I practiced my skills on marigolds and …