This is my “how I live” poem. I write a poem almost every day that no one but me ever sees, but occasionally I publish that poem here. MOSTLY LOOKING FORWARD Mostly looking forwardIts how I live my lifeWhy ruminateThe past is gone Its now or neverMostly looking forwardWith optimismSome people do Past life regressionsAnd … Continue reading How I Live Poem
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Advice About Walking for Healing and Health
Note that I got this from Instagram: In 1847, Søren Kierkegaard’s sister-in-law lay in bed for months. Henriette was married to his older brother Peter. She had been unwell for years with what the age called hypochondria, a word that then meant a low, heavy melancholy (not an imagined illness). She rarely left the house. … Continue reading Advice About Walking for Healing and Health
40 Books to Read
This list, I think, is pretty good. I’ve made my own top 10 book list and sometime I’ll post it, too, but this one that I just saw on Instagram is quite good and includes some books that I haven’t read. I thought it was worth posting here, both to share and for my own … Continue reading 40 Books to Read
The Centering Prayer App
For those familiar with Centering Prayer, developed by Father Thomas Keating, it basically combines Eastern traditions of meditation with Christian prayer. I did a retreat a number of years ago at Snowmass in Colorado where Keating was a monk. Now the beautiful land and monastery have been sold to a tech giant. Hopefully it will … Continue reading The Centering Prayer App
20 Useful Tenets of Feng Shui for Everyone
In trying to give my home a cleaner more open look, today I decided to look up 20 principles of Feng Shui. I ask Grok to help. The 20 principles of Feng Shui listed below focus on inviting harmony, positive energy (Qi), balance, and well-being into a home's space. They draw from core principles like … Continue reading 20 Useful Tenets of Feng Shui for Everyone
Meditation is the Superior Practice
I have a fairly large home library of spiritually related books. Lately I’ve been reviewing the Bhagavad Gita. In the past I’ve underlined and starred favorite passages. I’d like to feature one of those starred passages in this post: Meditation is superior to severe asceticism and the path of knowledge. It is also superior to … Continue reading Meditation is the Superior Practice
2 O’Clock in the Morning
How to get back to sleep if you awaken at night during those bewitching hours: sink into your pillow and bed feeling heavy (doing so means you relax tense neck or other muscles) count backwards from 100 have the room completely dark (cover eyes if necessary) have complete silence or... turn on a calming audio … Continue reading 2 O’Clock in the Morning
