Today we have the Dollar Store but when I was growing up, we kids enjoyed the old Five and Dime Store. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Thích Nhất Hạnh sees the suffering in us
- Thích Nhất Hạnh looked at me from the most sorrowful eyes I have ever seen, and I understood what it was like for a person to feel all the suffering the world is experiencing.
I had attended a five-day silent retreat at Blue Cliff Monastery in upstate New York with some thousand others who meditated morning, noon, and night. Someone would ring a bell as you walked through the monastery grounds and just like clockwork, everyone would stop what they were doing and rest in the present moment.  Continue reading
What would you buy if you could afford it?
I’d like to buy Peace for the world even for just one day. To see Muslims hug Jews and Protestants, smiling and shaking hands with Catholics, would be a wonderful sight.
Have Greeks and Albanians forgive and forget what the Turks might have done. Let the Irish march this St. Patrick’s Day with British royalty in the streets of New York.  Continue reading
Love overtakes this veteran in meditation
“Use me” I cried out to the Universe when visualizing myself spread out on a cross while meditating with a small group in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. Continue reading
Breaking the habit of an unwanted self
I shed twelve pounds in less than six weeks!
Can you believe it? I did it by visualizing myself getting into a shirt I haven’t worn since I put on extra weight. It’s part of a course I took entitled “Tap into Your Genius” and is based on the teachings of Dr. Joe Dispenza.  Continue reading
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