What had once been life’s quiet moments of solitary reflection — a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment — now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their ear buds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology. Dan Brown, Origin. I don’t…
Month: November 2017
Improve Our Conscious Contact With God.
Seek through prayer and mediation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood him or her. — Variation of Page 96, Daily Reflections . Mondays are days of good intentions. I can’t tell you how many diets I’ve started on a Monday, for example. Today being a good example. Well, if there is any post-it…
I Will Mace Life
I thought of a famous Buddhist Saying when I read one of my favorite comic strips this morning Pearls before Swine, by Stephan Pastis: I have been insulted! I have been hurt! I have been beaten! I have been robbed! Anger does not cease in those who harbour this sort of thought. I have been insulted!…
Go With The Flow
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free; Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. — Chuang Tsu In sports you hear coaches say all the time, “Go with the flow.” You let the game come to you rather than trying to be at constant conflict with…
All Saints Day 2017
I bet if you think about it you know a saint or two. Not the one’s canonized by the church, no I mean the one’s whose lives touch you personally. Saints come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. There the one’s who always stay after an event and clean up, who can be found off…