Patience is not just waiting around
Patience is considered a virtue, yet in our go-getter culture where decisive action and taking the lead is prized, patience
Category: wise effort
Does it feel like you’re running on empty?
A friend of mine recently told me that she hadn’t realized how much of a weight she had been under
Wise Effort & the Elements
The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path is an excellent tool to investigate what’s up in your life at this moment. ‘Why
Wise Effort – Finding the right balance
While meditating before giving my dharma talk I noticed that when I over-effort — striving and straining, trying to get
How can what is difficult be the easy thing?
Anna Douglas, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and my dear teacher Pema Chodron says, ‘Move toward difficulty.’ My teacher
‘You Don’t Have to Be Good’
“You don’t have to be good.’ This is the first line from Mary Oliver’s poem Wild Geese. It is such
The Art of Inner Conversation
Over the past weeks we have been exploring the characteristics of the inner aspects or sub-personalities that we have for
The Wisdom of this Season
On the recent retreat I attended, Teja Bell, who led us in Qi Gong twice a day, would teach us
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