The Bench of Solitude The bench holds A view to nowhere Looking outward But drawing you in To sit in...
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Excerpt from Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden, in which Karen Maezen Miller uses the metaphor of...
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. – Langston Hughes Find...
Excerpt from The Love Letters, a fictional account of what the revered Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi may...
There are a multitude of health benefits that can be derived from eating a vegetarian or vegan diet. Vegetarians and...
The Earth is what we all have in common. – Wendell Berry There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We...
The population of the “oldest old” is expected to triple soon, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So what really...
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. – Og Mandino You are never too old...
THE MINDFULNESS DIARIES:How I survived my first nine-day silent meditation retreat Jennifer Howd [Howd Media, 136 pages] When you ask...
Dated Evidence Spider plants hang everywhere;they are badly in need of water.Half a mug of cold coffeewith lipstick stainsrests atop...
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder...
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that...
Similar to the origins of Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine has both mythological and historical beginnings. According to myth and religion,...
Screen reader version: The human brain is a marvelous thing. It helps us learn and adapt. Central to these abilities...
This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou...
The Combination I am absolutely positiveThat in absolutely every dimension,In every alternate universe my energy ripples through,It is alwaysWith you...
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard If the facts...
Over the past several years I’ve become mindful of many ways that life helps us develop into something more than...
Earth Day is every day! These 30 thoughtful environment quotes are penned by ecologists, politicians, activists and other great environmentalists....
As many of you may know, The Mindful Word ran an Indiegogo fundraising campaign from October 28 to December 21,...
Part I It was early spring when the dreams began. They were not ordinary dreams. They had none of that...
Snow on Pine Clouds pass the sun warms snow clumps fall off branches spring back powder disappears into water pearls...
When I consider the abundance and the beauty of this world—the evidence of constant generation, life moving through trees, through...
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens A good...
