Good Changes

Looking for a way to stay engaged in turbulent times? Meditation doesn't replace action, but it helps me connect to something bigger so I can keep acting!

Join my four-day fundamentals course June 21-24. Offered on a sliding scale basis, and ideal for beginners who want to establish a practice or experienced students seeking a refresher course.

In this course you will learn:

• Concentration with breath or sound
• How to work with the thinking mind
• Mindfulness of the Body
• Awareness of thoughts & emotions
• The importance of self-compassion
• Common myths of meditation
• The art of beginning again
• Healthy expectations for practice

https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/intro-to-meditation

I love, therefore I exist.

Hey, Stranger, Here’s My Heart Perhaps what’s making me sick is not the lack of love I have received but the love I have ceased to give.

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

--Derek Wolcott