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The tongue has the power to create wounds that may never heal. Like a sharp knife it can cut through another’s spirit and cause deep injuries. But once the harsh, angry words have flown to the mark, they can’t be retrieved or erased. The mind of the receiver may pick them up and mull them…

In our society we tend to perceive softness and gentleness as being weak. But this is far from reality. As any hiker on a mountain trail knows, a mother bear is gentle and soft with her cubs, but fierce with anyone who may approach. In the same way most any good mother will defend her…

In the wonderful book, Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, Tita, a beautiful woman with a great talent for cooking, cooks her heart out while life goes on around her. Because of tradition, as the youngest daughter she must stay home and care for her mother. When her sister marries the man Tita loves,…

I recall when my uncle was wounded in war and the army sent home his purple heart to my grandmother. It lay in a beautiful little box and it represented blood that had been shed in the line of duty. Even more deeply it represented courage under the most difficult of circumstances – under fire.…

Take charge of your money. It doesn’t matter who you are, how you see yourself, how unworldly and non-materialistic you want to be, you can’t get away with ignoring it.- Lesley Garner In American culture we hold attitudes about money that say money and spirituality are mutually exclusive. “It’s easier for a camel to go…

Dance can elevate a soul to the divine. When the Sufi mystic, Rumi walked through the market, he heard the jewelry makers hammering gold. Through the pounding, he heard the voice of God and the rhythmic sounds and energy moved him into a state of divine ecstasy. Rumi, always in love with God and seeing…

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. – Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is an elevated way of being. Many of us are raised with feelings of, “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But moving to a place where vengeance and…

“Yoga is the cessation of agitation of the mind.”  – Yoga Sutras of Pantajali The word, yoga, comes from the ancient Indian language, Sanskrit. It literally means “to bind one to” or to yolk someone to something. In the ancient practices the breath binds one to the universal life breath that we all share. Focusing…

A few years ago I awoke to a dream where I saw that wearing an amethyst would be beneficial. Though I lived on the French Riviera where Cartier and Van Clef displayed windows filled with exquisite giant emeralds, rubies and diamonds, I found the necklaces and jewels beautiful, but never considered the deeper powers of…

The one thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. – Bertrand Russell Loggerhead turtles once filled the beaches of the South. Today their survival depends on conservation-minded women and men who comb the beaches for nests and mark or move them to protect them from the tides. On a recent trip to the Isle of…
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