Letting Go 3:3 …continued from Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn Letting go is probably the most difficult concept to grasp and the most challenging action to perform on the Quiet Corner path. Yet without this in our repertoire, all else is for naught. I continue to learn valuable lessons about myself and my world [...]
There is probably nothing that challenges us more than our relationships, since every aspect, every nuance of our life involves a relationship of some sort. Every waking and sleeping moment, we are engaged in a relationship with something or someone—with our spouse, boss, children, friends; with coworkers, store clerks, strangers; with our thoughts, dreams, [...]
Letting Go 3:2 …continued from Becoming Willing to Let Go! Take the Cotton Out of Your Ears and Put it in Your Mouth If we want to hone our listening skills so we can hear our inner voice, we must also learn to listen to the outer world. If we are not good listeners, we [...]
Letting Go 3:1 …continued from Relax Your Toes to Relax Your Mind Do you always need to be right? Do you need to have the last word in any verbal exchange, especially if it’s an argument? Do you ever think: "If only people would behave the way I want them to, everything would be fine. [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:5 …continued from You Are Not Doing This Alone I believe that desperation is a great motivator and that most spiritual pursuits are fueled by desperate conditions and situations. Crisis often brings out the best in people. For the duration of the crisis we put aside our petty problems and focus [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:3 …continued from Fear Were you a happy teenager? Did you like and trust people? If you were anything like me and many other people I know, the answer to these questions would be a resounding NO. When I was a teenager, I had decided that other people, especially adults, could [...]
Seeing the Big Picture 2:1 …continued from Becoming Aware 1:8 – Centering Before you can get what you want you have to know what you want. That may sound obvious, but how many times have you been hungry and not known what you wanted to eat? Sometimes, we just don’t know. It may be easy [...]
Paying attention to the words we use and the effect they have on others, ourselves, and on our own level of serenity is just the beginning of using this everyday activity to deliver tranquility into each day. Just as we can adopt good and bad habits of behavior, so can we do this with our [...]
…continued from Becoming Aware 1:7 – Just Sitting Our intention on the Quiet Corner path is to free our inner voice and move toward spontaneity and creative expression. But first it is important to create some structure, which will help our voice and encourage and support our endeavor. Having a structure will first ground you [...]
…continued from Becoming Aware 1:3 - Mind Noise Situating Yourself: Clean Sweep Your Mind As you become aware of your busy mind, one exercise might help before you look closer and deal with what’s actually there. You can do this exercise to give yourself a break from the din and to create some space so [...]
