What motivates you? I suppose there are any number of ways to answer this question. As a younger person, I was motivated by fear: of failure, of being unloved and unappreciated, of not-fitting-in, of mediocrity, of dying unknown. It is amazing what an unrelenting motivator fear was; it never let up and created stress, anxiety, … Continue reading Living My Mission
Category: Prompts
Entertaining Diversions and Connecting Points
What are your top ten favorite movies? I enjoy a “good” movie while at the same time recognizing movies for what I experience them to be: diversions and entertainment. There is nothing particularly wrong about being diverted and/or entertained as long as I recognize it. I do practice “being there” as I watch a movie, … Continue reading Entertaining Diversions and Connecting Points
Expression and Discovery
What do you enjoy most about writing? Writing for me is a way of bringing to form concepts that are bouncing around unnamed in my thoughts. As the words flow, sometimes I am surprised by what I discover and the old/new patterns that are arising unbidden. Other times I am startled to see a cohesion … Continue reading Expression and Discovery
Four Seasons
What do you love about where you live? Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn. I love the feel of experiencing all four seasons as each of them has a beauty and allure all its own. As I am writing, I find myself in the Northern Hemisphere in summer. Culturally, summer has become a time of vacations and … Continue reading Four Seasons
Unrestricted Positive Regard
What positive emotion do you feel most often? Love. I most often feel a spaciousness, a deeply open space, a positive energetic flow that emerges from somewhere beyond and within me. I have come to see that Love is an energy, perhaps such a subtle one we cannot yet measure it. Perhaps we never will. … Continue reading Unrestricted Positive Regard
Helping Me Be the Best Me
Daily writing promptWhat makes a teacher great?View all responses The best teachers I have had listened to me and addressed the needs I had. These teachers helped me discover myself- what excites me, what inspires me, how I learn- and then those teachers set me free to be me. That is an underrated gift teachers … Continue reading Helping Me Be the Best Me
Being Undivided
What brings you peace? Peace has become for me a sense of wholeness, completeness, and relationality. Rather than understanding peace as the absence of something- for instance, distraction or pain -I understand peace as the inclusion of these as part of my whole daily path. One of my teachers taught that human beings tend to … Continue reading Being Undivided
Therapy Is a Good Beginning
What profession do you admire most and why? I admire the work of psychotherapists in helping people find ways to cope with their trauma and life challenges. I benefitted greatly from the therapeutic process in dealing with life events from my past in ways that helped me live daily less like I was on a … Continue reading Therapy Is a Good Beginning
Simple Reminders
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? I would open a shop that sells inexpensive reminders of how precious each of us is, just as we are. I think I would need to do a fair amount of market research because what reminds me of being precious may do … Continue reading Simple Reminders
Being There
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time? I feel like the most important thing I carry with me is a sense of Presence. I work at keeping awake to wherever I am. No matter where you go, there you are. Confucius Am I really where I am? Sometimes, I … Continue reading Being There
Infinitely Precious 