Peace Ripple...

Stop... Put your feet flat on the ground...imagine that they are planted there with roots growing into the earth. Take a deep breath and and as you breath out, imagine your breath going down through your feet.... When you inhale, imagine your energy going up through your strong legs, up your spine...as you exhale, send the energy of your breath out through the crown of your head, up as high as you can imagine. As you inhale again, bring light back down through your crown, filling your entire body. Take another deep breath and feel calmness within your mind, body and spirit. Continue with your day.

Is there something causing you stress at the moment? A pile of paperwork? Kids not getting along? Drama at work? Whatever it is..... Just for a moment, pretend that whatever the source of your stress is.....doesn't matter at all. Go on, really try it. ...it just doesn't matter. Take a few deep breaths and as you exhale, release your attachment to the stress. Do it again, go deeper...believe it. If you can release your attachment to stress, it will not be stress anymore, but it will be just some 'thing' that you will deal with. Just as you would if you were hiking and got a little pebble in your shoe. You can either keep walking and feel the discomfort that comes with having an irritating wedge digging into your foot. Getting annoyed at the pebble for getting into your shoe. Or you can stop, take a moment for your self and remove the pebble. Releasing that irritation. It doesn't mean that there won't be more pebbles in your shoe - the trail is covered in them. Th...

"The absence of war, is not peace. It is people - it is us who start the wars. When differences become so great, and intolerance reaches epic proportions, wars will happen. When I fail to see another being as I see myself, wars will happen. When the causes and reasons become greater than the sanctity of peace, wars will happen. When I fail to realize the value of being alive, wars will happen. And whenever war begins outside, it will have begun on the inside first. And the war on the inside is far more dangerous because it is a fire that may never be quenched. It can rage on, and on, and on, and on. In the battle outside, at least you will hear a noise, but in the battle inside, you may not hear a peep. The battle outside may have strategies; the battle inside may be just going on with nobody even negotiating. This is your time on the face of this earth. This is your opportunity to be alive. When peace begins within me and has taken hold of me, when I have allowed it to blossom...

"There is a lot of chaos in this world, but there is also a lot of beauty. There is a lot of ugliness and cruelty in this world, and there is a lot of kindness, and both are coming out. It's just that people latch onto cruelty because they think it's more intriguing than kindness. Where does your attention go? That's what's important. You've got to keep your sanity. You, by the way, are responsible for that. Nobody else is responsible for your sanity, so don't go off the deep end looking at the bad in this world, because that will drive you insane. If you see the bad, also see the good. And hopefully, someday, you will become the lover of the good and you will reject the bad. On that day, you will live in a different world." ********** "Every day that you wake up, something within you yearns to be fulfilled, to be happy, to be in joy. If the thirst for peace is within you, then the peace is within you. And finding that peace is what drives us, lik...

"Human beings who look for a miracle have forgotten what miracle has already occurred: they breathe." ********** "Within you comes this incredible gift of life with every breath. It touches you, and you go on for another moment, and another, and another. Don't forget that it is but a drop, and a drop, and a drop that accounts for the mighty river. Your life comes one moment at a time. Be ready. Be ready to welcome it. Be ready to say 'Come'. And when you can be in that place, perhaps someday, you'll be able to say, 'Thank you for coming. Thank you for this existence. Thank you for this moment." ********** "We do so much to fulfill ourselves on the outside. We create massive institutions as we seek to expand our outer horizons, yet we overlook our inner horizons. It's perfectly fine to learn about the world, but we must also learn about the heart because true peace is not found outside. Within the heart of every human being lies the poss...

Balance is when there is harmony within mind, body and spirit - each one and as a unit. I am getting much better at recognising the early stages of imbalance in my life. I can get in touch with minor irritations that I used to dwell on for days, stewing them into something more than what was necessary. It has taken time, a path of growth and mostly remembering to come back into this moment regularly. It's so easy to have our minds in the past - "what if I had chosen a different house/mate/job/path?", "why did I say that instead of this other thing?", etc.. - or, to have our minds in the future - "when I win the lottery / find my perfect mate / get a new car / lose 20 pounds / then I'll be able to do the things I want / be happy".. etc. There is certainly some value in examining things that have happened if we do so from a perspective of learning from them. To do that, we need to look at those things with a sense of detachment, as if we were wat...

People who know what they want to do, generally spend much of their time doing it. And those that don't really know what they want, spend much of their time in the service of someone else's dream. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. If you blame others for the circumstances of your life, you give them power over you. You can never be free as long as you make other people responsible for your life. Only when you accept the responsibility of guiding your own life, can you truly be free to live abundantly.