Before Enlightenment, Chop Wood, Carry Water… After Enlightenment – Chop Wood, Carry Water.
It is good to come back to this ancient wisdom now and then, especially at times of a deep transformational experience, like the one so many had yesterday, on The International Day of Forgiveness, as they responded to the call and entered the deep inner world of guided meditations: Forgiving themselves and forgiving others – [...]
Forgiving and Forgetting are Not the Same
First, one last reminder:
The World Wide Forgiveness Meditations are happening on
August 3rd, at 11 AM EST and 1 PM EST. All the details are on my website www.PowerOfThePossible.com
If you are reading this for the first time, read the 2 previous blogs as well and then on Sunday - join us!
The email invitation has been [...]
An Invitation to Join People All Over the World in 2 Guided Synchronized meditations.
Announcing the Most Exciting Event: The World Wide Movement to Forgive! August 3rd, 2008 11am EST and 1pm EST. An Invitation to Join People All Over the World in 2 Guided Synchronized meditations. Honoring the 12th Anniversary of the International Day of Forgiveness.
About a year ago roughly, an idea came to me seemingly out [...]
Honoring the 12th Anniversary of the International Day of Forgiveness.
First, the wonderful news I have recently received.The 2008 New York Book Awards has announced its winners.
The panel of judges reviewed books in 4 different languages published over the period of 8, 5 years ( January 1, 2000 to mid 2008.)and awarded The Power of the Possible with An Honorable Mention!
I couldn’t fly to New [...]
Receiving and Giving are the Same
Today I will start by quoting a beautiful man, a monk, Brother David. This is what he said:
“The gesture for receiving is an open left palm. The gesture for giving is an open right palm.Both are the same.”
How can you say it better?Think about it.
For eons of time we have been giving ourselves the same [...]
How My Life Has Changed with the Release of "The Power of the Possible"
It is one thing to write a book, quite another – to become an author.
Let me start this blog by apologizing to all my readers for not having written anything here since the beginning of January. My only excuse is that ever since the release of The Power of the Possible in mid. January my [...]
The Danger of New Year’s Resolutions and What to Do Instead.
Well, it’s that time of the year again, isn’t it? Perhaps you’ve already written your resolutions for 2008 or are about to write them - any day now.
Let me suggest to you something: DON’T DO IT!Don’t set yourself up for failure one more time, unless feeling not good enough is high on the agenda.
What am [...]
HOLDING MY BOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME
I am sitting at my desk, looking at my book The Power of the Possible…
Only 2 weeks are left before it is in the stores everywhere, on January 8th, but my own copies are already here, sent to me by my publisher in advance of their release.
It as an amazing feeling – to hold your [...]
Starving For Love.
It is 6:30 am. From my deck, I am watching the most glorious sunrise over the San Francisco Bay. Every possible color is splashed across the morning sky, from deep magenta to mauve, to violet, to luminous pink. The clouds are feathered like a fan and the sky is of the deepest, most sensuous blue [...]
Death. A Sacred Right of Passage
My mother is dying. Her kidneys are giving out, no longer responding to medication, and her lungs keep filling up with water, endless water coming from some bottomless underground reservoir in her body. The water doctors are unable to stop. They pump it out – back it comes again, filling up her lungs, threatening to [...]