The Bliss Blog

  Let your love flow. Imagine yourself to be a clear running stream. Then allow yourself to overflow your banks, nourishing the flowers and grass that lace the edge. In every encounter you have with another person, the healing energy of love spills over, as they scoop up precious hand-fulls and carry it to the…

  I was in a card store recently and saw a plaque that spoke to me…I may yet get it. It had on it a message from God. It said something like “There are three responses God will give you. 1.Yes. 2.Wait. 3.And I Have Something Better in Mind.” Our all too busy, clamoring human…

 A few weeks ago, I sat in the presence of a woman I had met back in May when she performed at The Kindred Spirits Festival at the heaven-on-earth Mt. Eden Retreat in Washington, NJ. Her voice, which reminds me of Grace Slick, from Jefferson Airplane/Starship, wafted over the hills as she chanted kirtan (…

  Ani Kaspar’s greatest bliss is “living deeply, wholly and magnificently my true Self, or my authentic Soul, moment to moment, breath to breath. An unbound life of freedom, grace and love is who I am as a blissful embodiment here on precious Gaia. She says: “I feel completely connected to the simple perfection of…

  In January of 1981, at the suggestion of my college friend Albert Borris, (author of the road trip novel “Crash Into Me”)  with whose encouragement to stretch my comfort zones, then and to this day; I spent 10 days freezing my tush with a dozen or so equally intrepid/insane souls; depending on your perspective,…

  Love is not a commodity to be traded in exchange for security, comfort or companionship. The source of love is not another person. It is within you and from the One Source. Love heals. Love with abandon without fear of being abandoned. Love without limits begins with Self love. Love never dies, even if…

Walked into the post office last week to buy stamps to mail out Birthday cards for my niece and nephew.  Usually I purchase ‘love’ stamps since I believe that the expression of love need not be limited to special occasions. I even put them on my bills, since I know checks written for services rendered…

  It may seem odd to be writing about the death of someone inspiring under the category of My Personal Bliss, but not so, when you read further. In 1997, I became aware of a man named Rabbi Joseph Gelberman who was known as a “Modern Hassidic Rabbi”. He traveled from his native Hungary to…

  Boldly dancing across the top of her website flash the words: Envision Your Possibilities! Marsh Engle is a woman afire with passion and purpose. Just being in her sphere, it is nearly impossible to feel anything less than inspired. A primer on this wonder woman:   Marsh has spent over a decade facilitating hundreds…

  One of the occupational hazards that comes part and parcel with being a writer, is that I rarely experience things just ‘for me’. In the midst of nearly any experience, my wordsmith mind is whirling with thoughts of how I can share it with readers. I am able, most of the time to re-direct…

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