Beyond the Thinking Mind – Eckhart Tolle

“True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.” ― Eckhart Tolle A book surging with insight, Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle's, is a collection...

Let Your Life Speak – Parker Palmer

  "Is the life I am living the same as the life that wants to live in me?" I love this inquisitive question that Parker Palmer asks in his book, Let Your Life Speak.What resonates most for me i...

Walt Whitman Meditations

  Poetry is often my language of choice and reading Walt Whitman is like listening to the voice of life. Enjoy the following selections from his book of meditations.   Traveling Souls Let's ...

The Alchemy of Happiness

One word for this work of art....BRILLIANT!   I love this man - Hazrat Inayat Khan.  As a master musician and poet he was endowed with unbelievable sensitivity and knowledge of the spiritual realms.  With the g...

Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching

My shelves hold many translated copies of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, and I return again and again in my studies to its verses. Translated literally as “the classic way of virtue”, these philosophical teachings are...

Michael Meade on Myth

"A false sense of security is the only kind there is" ~ Michael Meade I always note when an author's name is mentioned on more than one occasion in the course of a day.  In this case, I'm so glad I did. ...

George Orwell on the English Language

Could it be that language plays a role in our lack of clarity? Do the words we choose to help us communicate more clearly often make us more confused?  As a journalist and distinguished author known for his cla...