Published: Elephant Journal December 23, 2019 It’s your first holiday since losing a parent—and everything is the same and yet different....

Forty years of dealing with intense and at times turbulent emotions have taught me the importance of letting go. I have a Hamlet mind....

I sit this morning during my meditation watching the train of troubles pass by. Worries about my kids. My parents. My job. Things I need...

Published: Elephant Journal January 26, 2019 “Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.” – Jonah Lehrer We tend to think of life as a journey...

Who rules your life – you or your mind? An odd question, you might say. What’s the difference? I am my mind. My mind is me. Not true....

I The black bear’s got me again. Walked out this morning and there he was, before the men had made their rounds, rooting through the...

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” – Henry Ford Of all the self-defeating habits that steal our happiness...

Dear friends and readers, My apologies for not blogging recently. I took on an expanded role at my company a few months ago and I haven’t...

We all know that both good and evil live in the human heart, because we see varying amounts of each in the people and situations we...

The other day a friend gave me the tragic news that a former colleague of ours had died. He had recently lost his job, and so he rented a...

It’s a few days before the official start of spring here in southeastern Pennsylvania but winter is very much in control. We are still...

Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. – Henry David Thoreau A new year has begun and so, for me, the annual purging...

Bombs sent to the homes of former U.S. presidents. Politicians being fired on at baseball practice. Journalists being body slammed....

If your life is dark and joyless, you are out of touch with your spirit and being ruled by your ego-mind. Learn the power of witnessing...

The thought struck me this morning as I was working out at the gym while scanning another morning of angry headlines on the news. This...

I am always amazed how much needless drama we create for ourselves and for others around us by taking things personally. You know how it...

No, I don’t mean that kind of giving up. As hopeless as you may feel right now, suicide is never the answer. It’s a waste of precious...

Of late I have taken up a new form of meditation. Kayaking. We tend to think of meditation as a sedentary practice, done while sitting...

Some days I am overtaken by an impulse to dance to the sheer joy of being alive. There I am working around the house, music playing, when...

While out on my walk this morning with my dog Cassie, a simple but profound thought struck me. I was watching Cassie run gleefully...