The Zen Traffic Warrior
“I used to be pushing and pushing to get ahead… but now I am like the Zen Warrior… It’s a completely calm existence…”
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Planting Seeds
Teaching Art to excluded teenagers takes calm and careful nurturing of the tiny seeds of mutual trust and respect…
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Five Seconds of Zen
Five Seconds of Zen: Being One with Water
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A Light in the Dark
“The darker it gets, the more brightly the light shines”
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The Awakening
There comes a time when you finally get it… Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on.
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Not-Knowing is OK
In anyone’s life, there are going to be times of not-knowing. That has to be OK…
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This is Water – David Foster Wallace
Real education has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness…
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The Grass-is-Greener
“Nothing happens next. This is it.”
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Tears in the Rain
“No-one has ever done anything like this for me, lady…”
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Being Seen
“Such eyes of compassion, stillness, even love…”
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No Difference
“…no difference between us except degrees…”
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Eckhart Tolle on Being Yourself
The “miraculous” state of presence is always available to us…
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The lady who forgot her shopping
How can we bring mindfulness from meditation practice into ordinary life?
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Hand in Hand
Hand in Hand – Beautiful Ballet Dancers – she with one arm; he with one leg…
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Making Our Minds Up
Our decisions are always built on sand…
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