Tagged mental health

Let Go

Life is an act of perpetually letting go. My experience is that the better I get at letting go, the fresher my life feels and the more empowered I become. If we can all stretch so far as to be able to release even the prior moment, we open to Life’s flow and its current…

Intermission: Take A Time Out

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” It was more than two decades ago that I came across this quote by French philosopher, Blaise Pascal, and I instinctively knew that what he was saying was true. Even back then I was very attracted to the idea of…

Life is the Eternally New Moment

Life is Now! Its energy creates the time and space of the present moment and nothing and nowhere exists outside of the parameters of its eternally new moment. Our experience of Life, however, is linear and so, we view it in terms of past, present, and future. The past, we feel it to be inflexible,…

The Stories We Tell

After the recent and electrifying 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, (TIFF), a festival abundant in highly innovative and creative storytelling, I have gotten to thinking about the stories that we tell to ourselves. What are the quality of the stories that we tell? I routinely find myself mulling over stories of my past and making…

#TIFF2016 /A Destiny Awaits

There is a destiny that awaits you, one that loves you and is always summoning your heart towards it. Though the idea of destiny suggests a future time and space, it is very much alive and currently present. You are always moving towards it, and yet it is with you even now. It inhabits you always and as you recognize…