“You’re a hard, such a very hard, habit to break.” Chicago We all have habits. They give us a sense of security, safety, surety. We rise at the same time in the morning, we drink our coffee, brush our teeth, drive to work, etc. Our habits create a home for us. This home keeps us […]
Category: Authenticity
React or Respond
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies out growth and our freedom.” Victor Frankl My friend was pulling out of the driveway with her son in the car. Her sweet husband was in the yard and noticed that the dog […]
Magical Magnifying Mind
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” St. Paul “It’s just so hard” she went on to enumerate her struggles. “I don’t sleep, I worry all the time. About my son, and his school. I worry […]
Dark Dirt
Digging in the dirtStay with me, I need supportI’m digging in the dirtTo find the places I got hurt – Peter Gabriel I was reading a little parable about a man who was looking for his keys under a streetlamp. A cop came up to him and asked what he was doing. The man told […]
Synchronicity
“A connecting principle, Linked to the invisible” – Sting I was listening to a keynote speaker, Major Dan Rooney, and he brought up the term Synchronicity. Which always makes The Police song play in my head… (sorry) My next thought is where the word originally came from. Carl Jung coined the word to express a concept that […]
Passion Project
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” Oprah Winfrey Tom has this big dream. It’s amazing, enormous and absolutely fantastic. His best attribute is casting the vision for this beatific project. When he tells you the why behind his vision, you feel it in your soul. You find […]
Let go
“Love is what’s left when you let go of absolutely everything you don’t need.” Erich Shiffman “I can’t let go of everything. What will I be? I don’t want to be a non entity.” I completely get it. What would it look like if I were to let go of everything? Would I become nothing? […]
Freedom
“Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last. ” Martin Luther King, Jr. Recently I’ve been thinking about freedom. In a previous post, we talked about how God’s will for us is to be happy, joyous and free. But free from what? I think it’s freedom from our selfish little ambitions […]
Self love
I was lying in savasana and my throat was all tight, tears were threatening to come pouring out of my closed eyes the thought came, “I did this to me. What is wrong with me that I would eat myself into 20 lbs? Don’t I care about myself at all?” After class I broke down […]
Harmony
“I’d like to teach the world to sing/ in perfect harmony.” I was in yoga class the other day and the teacher played a track of music and asked us to chant with it. The whole class was chanting in unison, matching the same pitch as the leader, but her pitch was higher than my […]
Heather Dellapi 