Celebrating Our Differences
This picture of me with the Board of Directors of Unity of Marathon in the Florida Keys was taken on my last day as their Senior Minister, almost ten years ago now. Life has changed quite a bit for all of us in that period of time as…
If you were floating high above in our Solar System, you would see Planet Earth spinning around its axis, moving along its Solar orbit, softly coalesced within the Milky Way Galaxy, and eventually watch Earth spin its way into the expanding Universe. You’d be witnessing four unique spiraling…
“Congruence entails living in dynamic harmony, where strands of our lives play in concert together in a way that has a deep and meaningful resonance and that changes as we learn to grow” – C. Gergen & G. Vanourek I used to really love the balance of…
You know how it begins: someone says something that triggers you; you hear a certain inflection in the tone of someone’s voice; a car speeds up to prevent you from changing lanes so you can turn; someone’s child is throwing a tantrum and handling it differently than you’d…
Joy – the word for our next issue – but how do we get and sustain a state of joy? Many options using energy medicine have been explored in previous articles so I would like to come at this from a different point of view this time….
Deep inside your body, your DNA begins to dance causing a ripple effect known as joy. Almost spontaneously, an expression of joy emerges and beckons to be shared. It’s a wonderful biophysical event based on a conceived perception, which happens to be psychological. Yes, there’s more to the…
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy” – Rumi Do you feel there is something missing from your life, that perhaps the world is against you or that other people seem to smile, laugh and be a lot happier…
Aristotle believed that the function of a state is to ensure supreme good of people, in the moral and intellectual sense. Happiness comes from virtue and it is the ultimate goal of mankind. State is the agency that helps men to achieve their ultimate goal. [Samuel Enoch Stumpf,…
No, this is not another suggestion to take action for a social cause – well, maybe it actually is – only the “cause” is about helping you maintain or improve your health. A lot has been written lately about the need to stay active and move. It’s believed…
“Do you give homework to students?” JL- Yes. Always. And lots of it. If they can’t pass the test at the beginning of their next class they have to sit in the corner and alternate between ujjayi, breath of fire and nodi shodhana wearing a dunce hat until…