The ability to think is a wonderful and useful tool. Yet we have a hard time separating what we perceive from how we think. We make the capital mistake that...
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Painter Jim Fuess’ abstract work is vivid, full of energy and gusto. He works with liquid acrylic paint on canvas and his technique involves using squeeze bottles with different viscosities of liquid paint and several interchangeable nozzles of different apertures. As he writes on his website, his paintings convey “whimsy, fear, energy, movement, fun and dread.” The viewing experience is as though the lines and shapes...
One way to understand a spiritual term is to first know its opposite. One of my favourite stories about community, or its opposite, is this: A few years ago an Australian...
Lynn is a perfectionist, which she thinks is a good thing, but everyone who works for her sees it differently. “She gets stuck in the details,” says one of her people in a...
Tea is the second healthiest beverage next to purified drinking water. Among dozens of other tea variations, hibiscus tea was consumed in the ancient Nile Valley during...
Arlene shuffled down the subway steps to the platform of the subway station. It was dark and damp inside. Luckily the subway had just come in. She took the nearest...
There comes a time in your life when you finally get it. When, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside...
Music and the individual collide every day: while shopping, exercising, dining and driving. Hip-Hop, pop, jazz, and the blues—the amount of music that surrounds us...
Traditional societies with long histories perhaps know the value of patience better than societies with much shorter histories. They understand that it often takes a...
Buddhist thought proposes that we all suffer from a misperception of reality. Our “misleading mind” treats the thoughts, emotions, and concepts that it creates (and which...
Sometimes on Parnassus
the light
is so weak
I cannot read the leaves
of my tea
nor the sticky pages...
When asked how to hold a sword correctly, the actor Errol Flynn replied, “In the same way you would hold a bird, not too tightly and not too loosely. If you hold too...
Slow Food is good, clean and fair food. Slow Foodies believe that the food they eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the...
We only get one body in this life, so, how we feed it, fuel it, and take care of it has a direct effect both on how we feel and look now and how healthy we'll be in the...
Falling in love / with her was / like slipping / into a rabbit hole, / spotting a few / half eaten carrots / but no other signs / of rabbits...
Coconut oil is a popular nutritional oil derived from the flesh of matured coconuts. Coconuts have long been a primary source of food throughout the tropics and their...
The idea that the pursuit of happiness might be an unalienable right was given to us two hundred years ago by Thomas Jefferson, but how many Americans ever...
Most people, myself included, are holding onto at least one thing way past its expiration date. It could be a belief, perhaps that your hair is falling out and you're ugly...
Our Earth is hungry for solutions. From climate change and deforestation to overpopulation and pollution, our lives are ever dependent on our delicate dealings with...
Slow, deliberate strokes, indicative of a writer with an enlightened, peaceful disposition, are the strokes of Thich Nhat Hanh. In addition to being a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, poet and peace activist, Nhat Hanh practices mindful calligraphy and has put on many exhibits dedicated to his particular form of the art...
While I was in India in 1971, I met a number of Indian yogis, Tibetan lamas, and Buddhist monks. I was struck by the relaxed warmth, openness, and alertness of these men and women, no matter...
Just came across this section of Transforming Behaviour Change while looking for a reference about decision-making and thought it was worth...
With ocean protection on the agenda as our world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil for the U.N.’s Rio+20 Earth Summit–and World Oceans Day approaching on Friday (6/8)–Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) released this inspirational video....
If we’re honest enough to look, we start to see that as a human personality we're a long, long way from being free. The personality is being jerked around by the conditioning of the past and the...
