Every living being breathes. From our first breath to our last, we are given this unasked-for gift. Our breath arrives for us each moment like a miracle. And then our bodies answer, with our exhale out into the universe - letting go, releasing a bit of who we are to the All. It is the single biggest bestowal of our lives and one that we most often take Continue Reading
Blessing Practice
As we begin to turn toward the season of forgiveness, for ourselves and others, there are several practices, we can learn that help soften our souls. One beautiful (and effective) practice that helps us cultivate compassion in and for ourselves and for others is called Blessing Practice (or Lovingkindness Practice). My teacher Sylvia Boorstein teaches about Continue Reading
Life lessons from the saddest day of the Jewish year
On Tisha B'Av - the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av (July 16, 2013) we commemorate and mourn the destruction of the 1st and 2nd Temples in Jerusalem. For modern Jews, how might we make sense of this? A profound teaching may be uncovered from this little-known day: the fall of the Temple reflects the times in our own lives where things fall apart, where Continue Reading
Gifts everywhere
"Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal." Abraham Joshua Heschel Anything that stops us in our tracks and helps us experience a moment of "wow" is a Continue Reading
Mary Oliver on Awe
Instructions for life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver (from her poem "Sometimes") This photo was taken on a walk around our neighborhood in Mar Vista (Los Angeles) - You can just be walking, and come upon such beauty! Click on the photo to really see how amazing this flower is! (for more beautiful up-close photography Continue Reading
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