Archive | August, 2013

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 14

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 14

Ice Cream: Creation Does anyone out there NOT like ice cream? Ice cream is an essential ritual of celebrating summer—the coolness and sweetness are the perfect contrast to the heat. Someone somewhere invented ice cream. It was a human creation. Isn’t that amazing? What do you wish you could create? If you could create anything, […]

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14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 13

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 13

Gathering: Connection Maybe it’s an outdoor concert, a festival, a picnic, or all three. But summer is a time when people gather. They might be friends and family or they might be strangers, but it’s hard to go through a summer without some kind of gathering. Even if you are strangers, there is something that […]

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14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 12

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 12

The Road: The Journey Summer is a time of road trips. The road, of course, is a metaphor for life. Where are you going? Where do you want to go? Are you going where others want you to go or where you have always dreamed of going? Plan the ultimate road trip for you in […]

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14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 11

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 11

Swimming: Joy There are few things more joyful to me than swimming. I’m not talking about doing laps. I’m talking about jumping in and playing. Or floating on a raft. Floating on your back and looking up at the sky. Swimming naked!!! Are you the kind of person that goes in, or do you stay […]

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14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day 10

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation:
Day 10

River: Surrender My favorite mental image from reading about Tantra is that the secret to happiness is floating as if you’re in a river. We are all travelling together in a river of time, and you can fight it or try to swim upstream or you can just surrender and float in the current, letting […]

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14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day Nine

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation:
Day Nine

Ponds: Reflection Ponds are mysterious. They mostly reflect the sky rather than reveal what is below. Some people are ocean people, others are pond and lake people, but the mystery of the pond is about delving deeper. Life is often like the surface of the pond, a visual illusion. It’s nothing, really, but water reflecting […]

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14 Days of Summer, A Meditation: Day Eight

14 Days of Summer, A Meditation:
Day Eight

Ocean: Rhythms This photo is a shot of the ocean between Bronte and Bondi Beaches in Australia. The whole world has beaches because land around the world is surrounded by oceans, which connect us all through tides, waves, currents, and the sea life within. The ocean can be wonderful or deadly, but that in itself […]

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14 Days of Summer, a Meditation: Day Seven

14 Days of Summer, a Meditation:
Day Seven

The Forest: Intuition A forest can be both a frightening and a magical place. Why is that magic so frightening to people? Because there is power in it, the power to understand nature at its deepest. Spending time in a forest in summer reminds us that everything is a cycle of birth, life, and death. […]

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