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Zeppelin, timing, and the desire for control
My joy is like spring so warm, it makes flowers bloom all over the earth, My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans, Please call me by my true names, so that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Control, desire, habits, Happiness, Led Zeppelin, music, Suffering, Thich Nhat Hanh, Timing
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Personal Ngram
Google has a nifty program called the Google Books Ngram Viewer which tracks word usage over time via all the books in Google’s dataset. Pretty cool idea. What I would really like to have is a ‘Personal Ngram’ tracking my … Continue reading
Integrating Head & Heart Part II
Continued from Part I Smiling at Stress Our first events were in Boston, where we convened as an entire group. The day before the Harvard University event we had a number of decisions to make, and the full community of … Continue reading
Integrating Head & Heart Part I
I was asked to write an extended article about the Wake Up tour for the Mindfulness Bell magazine…what began as a simple reflection grew into a story of how I found my way from the corporate world to the mindfulness … Continue reading
Deepening my (piano) practice
When I was a youngster my parents signed me up for piano lessons, and then a few years later it was boring and I wanted to quit. My parents were clever, they told me: “If you can find one adult … Continue reading
Being Peace
Greetings from Southern France. I’m in Plum Village for the next three months, embarking on the next chapter of what is shaping up to be quite a journey. I’m here for a variety of reasons, primary of which is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Being, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness, Mindfulness in Plain English, Plum Village, Thoreau, Walden
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Desiring Praise: Emptying the Dishwasher
In Getting Things Done, productivity guru David Allen says that to be a high-performing CEO you have to first learn how to handle buying cat food. Cat food? Yes. Why? Because if you can’t deal skillfully with the minute details … Continue reading
Wake Up!
I’ve spent some time in the last year thinking through what I wanted my life to look like. This culminated recently with an aspiration to immerse myself within mindfulness practice and teaching, without quite knowing how I was going to … Continue reading
What’s your vision for the rest of your life?
I was asked the following question recently: “What’s your vision for the rest of your life?” Not an easy one to answer. Everyone has their own interpretation of things like “I want to make a difference in the world” or … Continue reading