The Gift of Love The traditional Christmas story celebrated this week, is about the coming of Jesus the Christ.  The story has been interpreted many ways; one way is that he was the bringer of Love-to release people from the law of the human, and to teach them how to...

The Gift of a Silent Mind Many of us are meditators, students of meditation or wannabees.  I have been them all…I think the reason it can be challenging to meditate is because there might be a misunderstanding of what a silent mind is all about.   When I took the TM...

Gifting Beauty One of the supreme gifts we can offer each other is the awareness of ever-present beauty.  In the hustle and bustle of the holiday season we can forget to notice and give beauty to our friends, family and our world.  The above picture looks a lot like...

Meaningful Conversations As the theme of this month is shaping up to be on giving- it occurred to me to explore some ways of giving that may not immediately come to mind around the holidays-or for that matter at any time. I am on the second reading of a new book by...

Giving is Receiving I grew up with the reminder that “it is better to give than to receive”.  My mother was a thoughtful woman who sat me down after every gift occasion to write my thank you notes.  That tradition occurred somewhere between the Renaissance and...

Shout out Your Thanks One of my favorite Thanksgivings came many years ago when I flew back home to Michigan to surprise my family for the Holiday.   I enrolled my sister in helping me and we just showed up for dinner that Thursday.  The looks on their faces; the joy...

Grateful for Everything I am pretty sure everyone knows there is a drought in California.  So the last two days that beautiful white stuff has been falling from the sky into my backyard.  I think it snowed continuously for 24 hours plus…and as I look out my study...

Leading and Living from Heart The most important part of this shift is the change of mind to focus on the heart- to focus on a feeling rather than a set of facts or figures.  Rather than everything that has been tried before; we try new tools and delve into new...

Heart Centered Leadership For me, the new era for humanity calls for a new form of leadership with an emphasis on different qualities and different capacities.  If we were to describe the era we are living through; I think it would contain a very masculine energy – a...

The Infinite Intelligence In a podcast this week, with Deepak Chopra, he said the following: “The intellect cannot correct mistakes of the intellect.”  It resonates with what Einstein said about solving problems.  For me it speaks to the shift necessary to bring in...

Meaningful Solutions It might have been Freud who said doing the same thing over and over expecting different results could be the definition of insanity.  When I look across the landscape of events- from stock market losses to gas prices (here in CA at $7 plus...