Earlier this week, students from the School of Inspired Leadership in India, where I taught at the beginning of this year, contacted me with a request to write a testimonial for their yearbook. Apparently, the year is over and they are graduating from the school that holds the values of Ethics, Mindfulness, Diversity, Compassion, and [read more...]
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I recently had a chance to visit the Old City of Jerusalem and wander through the narrow streets of this ancient place. Because my partner was with me, and it was her first time to Israel, we decided to spend about 3 hours with a tour guide. It was a fascinating experience, filled with stories [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a life with an open heart. These past few weeks have been “interesting” for me, which is an interesting word to use to begin with. It all started with an incredible 2-day workshop with Gail Larsen (the next one coming up in this ‘hood is here). Apparently, it doesn’t even take [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a different way of looking at, and experiencing life. This email, from someone I don’t know, starts with the following line: “…. from my cousin in Sendai, Japan where she has lived for the past decade teaching English.” I think it needs to be shared, to remind us that there is [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a seemingly easy and natural-to-us all act. Or maybe not that easy. I recently made an important, and perhaps life-changing, discovery. My ears are not the same, in their shape. Yes. Who knew. I realized it because one of the two earphones, the left one, of my newly-acquired iPhone, keeps falling [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about the gift and the blessing of meeting extraordinary people. The woman, a mother of a family of five, called a family meeting. Her husband runs a very successful business, and they have three kids, ages 11 (or 12), 8, and 6. The woman is running The Hunger Project organization (http://www.thp.org/), and [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a recent drumming weekend in Seattle. “I have had many teachers in my life,” he said. “My most important one right now, and for many years is her. She will always tell me when I am present, engaged, in my heart… Or not. When I am, she will participate, play [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about the sadness of a loss, and the many kind words from many strangers. They are not even friends, for I have not met them, other than in an online forum of a topic of a mutual interest. And even there, we have not interacted directly. Yet, they just posted a message [read more...] Today’s Reflection is a collection of thoughts and quotes that has accumulated here and is waiting to see the cyber-light. “Let what we love be what we do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” – Rumi “Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that [read more...] Today’s Reflection is about a poem that feels very relevant to my life right now. Perhaps to yours too, even though the reasons might not be the same. In that firsthardly noticedmomentto which you wake,coming backto this lifefrom the othermore secret,moveableand frighteninglyhonestworldwhere everythingbegan,there is a smallopeninginto the new daywhich closesthe momentyou beginyour plans. What you [read more...] |
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