When life dumps us on our derriere like a rogue summer wave at the beach, we need to be prepared for what is going to happen next. Those, my friends, are significant life moments. Usually we are living life in wonderful ignorance of the change in the undercurrents. We are pleasantly frolicking or purposely jumping …
Other side of consciousness.
Meditation takes us to the other side of ourselves. It takes us to our soul.
Hamsters.
How many of us are simply treading the same path day in and day out, creating deep ruts of sameness?
The quiet.
When life moved from chaos to quiet, I realised how much fear was my narrative.
Finding ourselves or creating ourselves
When I started my journey, I thought I was going in search of myself. I hiked in solitude hoping to run into God in the dense bush. I sat in Zen meditation on a tiny wooden stool thinking that the answer would surface in a quiet mind. I picked up a paint brush in the …