Our suffering comes when we have formed an attachment to some behavior - smoking, drinking, gambling, or to some belief, idea, or opinion we have about ourselves or the world around us. It is an attachment we are afraid or unwilling to release. Let’s look further at how this plays out in our life.

A phrase I often invite my clients to add to the things they tend to say to themselves or to others is “up til now”. This seemingly small addition can make a real, even profound, difference in how you experience your life.

If you make a mess, if you say or do something that is hurtful, unkind, or disrespectful to another person, you have to clean up your mess. If you want your life and your relationships to thrive here is what I want to invite you to say to that person.

Consider this way of looking at life. All we ever have in our lives are what I call “moments of now”. And the more fully present we are in each and every “moment of now” the better our life works.

This happens when your authentic self, your soul, holds your innocent but misguided reactive ego with tenderness and compassion. Learn how to love the wounded child within.

A true story about why it is important to “honor your own process”, to pay attention to all of your feelings.

Life is jammed full of righteous things. So if you can do them with joy, life is pretty good.

Spiritual "Gravity" is instantaneous. If you lie, steal or hurt others, the quality of your life will fall down. Here is why it's important, to be honest.

What we are going through right now, is so big that we as individuals, as a society, and as a civilization can not come out of it the same as came into it. This event is simply so big that we cannot ignore the reality that life never turns back, is never the way it was before any previous moment of now.

I share this with you in the hope that it may deepen your experience of the gifts of meditation and expand your sense of connectedness with all of life.