“To become authentic, each of us has to develop our own leadership style, consistent with our personality and character. Unfortunately, the pressures of an organization push us to adhere to its normative style. But if we conform to a style that is not consistent with who we are, we will never become authentic leaders.” Bill…
Tag: Peace
WE ARE MORE LOVE THAN FEAR, MORE POWER THAN WEAKNESS, MORE SUCCESS THAN FAILURE: July 17, 2018
The energy of light embodies us but also is us. We are more light than matter, more love than fear, more power than weakness, more success than failure. As we close our eyes, we find ourselves connecting beyond body, time and space to our light of eternity and grace. LISTEN HERE SUPPORT the Prayer Music…
THE TRUTH IS THE LOVE THAT EMBRACES US ALL: July 6, 2018
In gratitude, there is no past, present or future, but there is a now that is in harmony with truth. The truth is that love embraces us all. In this moment, I breathe in the breath of knowing that past, present and future do not exist. Instead I am, we are, awesome opportunity moving forward…
WITH EACH KIND WORD, YOU’RE PLANTING A SEED THAT WILL GROW: February 6, 2018
“Try to abandon expectations about how you should feel while doing loving-kindness meditation. If you feel discouraged by the lack of good feelings in metta meditation, bring kindness to yourself because you’re feeling discouraged: ‘May I be safe, happy, healthy, and live with ease.’ Shift your attention away from what you want and onto how…
HAVE WE EXPRESSED THE LOVING BEINGS THAT WE ARE? February 4, 2018
“We don’t have to wait for death to approach to liberate ourselves from hatred. We can begin by asking ourselves, have I loved enough— within myself, within my house, beyond my doors, and into the world? Have I expressed the loving being that I am? Have I borne this love even when someone’s heart is…
THE TIMELESS PRESENT RELEASES ME IN EACH BREATH: January 25, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “The idea in scanning your body is to actually feel and inhabit each region you focus on and linger in it in the timeless present as best you can. You breathe in to and out from each region a few times and then let go of it in…
I EMBODY THE AWARENESS OF THIS MOMENT: January 23, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “[B]efore we convince ourselves that our bodies are too this or too that, shouldn’t we get more in touch with how wonderful it is to have a body in the first place, no matter what it looks or feels like? The way to do this is to tune…
I WAS ONCE WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE: January 22, 2018
WEEK 4 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “It is amazing to me that we can be simultaneously completely preoccupied with the appearance of our own body and at the same time completely out of touch with it as well . . . . When we put energy into actually experiencing our body and we refuse…
EACH BREATH PROVIDES ME WITH NEW AWARENESS: January 8, 2018
WEEK 2 OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE “Mindfulness requires letting go of judgment, returning to an awareness of the breath and the body, and bringing your full attention to what is in you and around you.” Thich Nhat Hanh, from The Art of Communicating THIS IS A LISTENING BLOG LISTEN BY CLICKING HERE I breathe…
I GIVE THIS MOMENT TO MYSELF – January 1, 2018
WEEK ONE OF THE 40-DAY MINDFULNESS CHALLENGE LISTEN TO MEDITATION GUIDANCE BY CLICKING HERE You can center in any meditation, at any time, in any place. There is no right or wrong way. The simplicity of mindfulness only requires that we start in the present moment, becoming aware of where we are right now, without judgment….
I MOVE BEYOND THE BOX OF RESTRICTIONS AND LIBERATE MYSELF IN THE PURE AWARENESS OF BEING: December 28, 2017
“When awareness is well established and mindfulness is happening by itself— what we could call effortless effort — then we can simply rest in the continuity of bare knowing. Ryokan, a nineteenth-century Zen master, poet, and wandering monk, expressed it this way: ‘Know your mind just as it is.’” Joseph Goldstein, from Mindfulness: A Practical Guide…
I AM ONE WITH EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE: December 27, 2017
“Mindfulness also serves to protect the mind from other unskillful thoughts and emotions. Without mindfulness, we simply act out all the various patterns and habits of our conditioning. . . . . [C]ontrary to some popular beliefs, our aim should be not to follow the heart but to train the heart. All of us have…
