For anyone who's not on the Living Compassion email list but who might be interested:NEW EMAIL CLASS WITH CHERI HUBER

Title: “It’s Time to Feel Good” - NEW SESSION
Dates: November 1-30, 2011
Cost: $80.00 ($60.00 for Monthly Donors)Note: This class is one of the prerequisites for the extraordinary new “What You practice Is What You Have” retreat ( Read more... )

I realized over the weekend that my usual autumn funk has already descended upon me.

It did so a few weeks ago, actually, back near the beginning of September. The cryptic symbol I'd marked on the calendar on September 4 was so cryptic that it wasn't until late afternoon that I remembered what it meant. Oh... yeah. It's the anniversary of Mom's ( Read more... )

[Brief and minimally-edited because I'm in a hurry ( Read more... )

From Science Daily:Psychologists are finding out that even when people try to focus on a task they tend to lose concentration within 40 minutes, and sometimes as little as 10 minutes. The studies are based on a new technique, called transcranial Doppler sonography, that uses ultrasound to monitor blood flow velocity in the brain. The technique ( Read more... )

Today's entry in Transform Your Life: A Year of Awareness Practice:"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must create the universe." - Carl Sagan

ASSIGNMENT: Today, continue to explore the oneness that is "us".

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NSFW if you're a big sappy moosh like me and prone to tears: Ze Frank's Chillout Song

That Will to Divest
by Kay RyanAction creates
a taste
for itself.
Meaning: once
you've swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates
you kept
for guests,
it gets harder
not to also
simplify the larder,
not to dismiss
rooms, not to divest yourself
of all the chairs
but one, not
to test what
singleness can bear,
once you've begun.

I just set this as the homepage on my work computer.

I have now spent fifty-five years in resolving, having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming schemes of a better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short. О God, grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions.
- Samuel Johnson, 1704

I have a Google Alert in for things relating to American Zen teacher Cheri Huber. This morning, one came in and I clicked through to the original post, to find this:One of my befondnessd authors, Cheri Huber, tells us in her book, Be The part You Want To Find, “One course does not hint to another. defective hints to minus. Having hints to having. ( Read more... )