As we pass through the doorway of 2025, and into the space of a New Year, many of us are filled with anticipation and excitement over what these next 12 months might bring. If last year was challenging for us (and who doesn't go through challenges?) or we feel that we didn't quite live up to our potential in some way, we may feel ready to turn the page on what has been, in order to embrace what might be. In our looking forward however, we miss the plain truth of this present

"If you seek the Kingdom within you first, everything else will be given to you" Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth As we approach the Winter Solstice on Dec. 21st, and Christmas just a few days after that, we are being given a powerful opportunity to stop our habitual 'doing' and rediscover the joy and peace of just 'being'. As the old Taoist Masters have reminded us about this Sacred time of year; there is a Divine Light pouring into the world that is here to heal and rejuvenate

"Don't you know? The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Yeshua As we enter into the Holiday Season we can easily find ourselves overwhelmed by the constant demand of places to go, things to do and people to see. Between the shopping (even if it is online), parties and decorating we can easily find ourselves exhausted and depleted, sometimes to the point of getting sick with a cold or the flu. When you add the fact that feelings of loneliness and depression rise during the

"If the only prayer you were to ever say was 'thank you', that would be enough. Meister Eckhart As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, and the beginning of the Holiday Season, it can be a good time to pause and reflect on all of the abundance that fills our lives. So often we can find ourselves constantly thinking about what we don't have, or what we think we need to be happy; yet as the Zen teaching tells us, 'Contentment is found in the realization of how much you alrea

"Trying to control the future is like trying to take the Master Carpenters place. When you handle the Master Carpenters tools chances are that you'll cut your hand." Tao Te Ching Have you ever noticed that life has a way of doing exactly what it wants to do? That no matter how hard you may try, everything has a way of following its own course, and ending up in a place you never dreamed it would? That no matter how much you may work and struggle to get ev

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them. That only creates sorrow. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Don't interfere with the flow." Lao Tzu I often write about the Taoist practice of Wu Wei; the art of living and moving in the effortless Flow of the Tao (the Universal Intelligence that is doing everything, despite how much you may believe you are in charge). Whenever I speak or write about this very powerful pra

" What exactly are you waiting for? Nothing that could ever happen could be as good, or as precious as what is happening right Now." A. H. Alamas Often we can find ourselves waiting for something extraordinary to happen in our lives. Often, we are not sure exactly what that might be; but we know that we will know it when it happens! Perhaps we dream of doing big things; writing a bestselling novel, climbing Mt. Everest, or perhaps creating something that changes the cou

"The Great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths." Lao Tzu There is a wonderful little Taoist book called the Hua Hu Ching...

"The heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths." Rumi Though we have probably heard that living from the...

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things...