Our world is shaped by how we see it

This blog is taken from one of the chapters in my most recent book, Et ainsi coule la rivière (Thus flows the river, only available in French).  The notion that we live in a welcoming and caring universe is very close to my heart, and at the end of the text...

The Sun Is Always Shining

If darkness has fallen, know that the sun is shining at this very moment, somewhere not too far away. There are times when gloom or darkness causes us to momentarily lose sight of the light. It is at these times when the thought of the sun can help us. Its warm,...

Our Souls in Service

Physician and teacher Rachel Naomi Remen invites readers to a deeper commitment to soul and service: It often seems that the problems in the world are large and overwhelming and there are limits to what we can accomplish as a single person or even as a single group....

Say NO to Compassion Fatigue!

There is a great difference between sympathy (from the Greek sym-, with – and pathein-, to suffer, i.e., to suffer with) and compassion. With compassion, one’s heart goes out to others to uplift and console them, strengthen them and express the deepest caring for...

The Prayer of Yes

by Bunny McBride, from her book Earthshine: Gifts of Reflected Light There is a life force within your soul;seek that life.There is a gem in the mountain of your body;seek that mine.~ Rumi Some years ago, darkness came over me like a lunar eclipse. It began in the...