A common complaint about not doing meditation is a lack of time. Actually meditating adds time to your life because it helps bring order and direction.

1.  From Smitty at havingcouragetochange:

Meditating… on What It Means to Meditate….

Meditation. What is in it for me?

Science tells me that by using some form of meditation each day, I can change my brain structure. Wow.  Let ‘s get started now, then.

What is meditation? In program we each get to answer that in our own way.

It helps me to remember that every action can serve a spiritual purpose, when I designate it as so for me.

Our Serenity Prayer is an easy place for me to start. Between meetings I can use it. I can take myself  to a quiet place, close my eyes, and repeat each words of the Serenity prayer to myself in a gentle voice. Serenity. Courage. Wisdom.

Source: Thank you Jessica Hagy

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. Thank you to the Irish who have given us William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Frank McCourt, Bono along with millions of good and kind people.  And, of course, Riverdance.  Here’s a 2-minute clip of one of my favorite performances. (Can’t seem to get enough of this…)

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For Equilibrium, a Blessing:

Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,
May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.

As the wind loves to call things to dance,
May your gravity by lightened by grace.

Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,
May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.

As water takes whatever shape it is in,
So free may you be about who you become.

As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said,
May your sense of irony bring perspective.

As time remains free of all that it frames,
May your mind stay clear of all it names.

May your prayer of listening deepen enough
to hear in the depths the laughter of god.”

― John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

John O’Donohue (1 January 1956 – 4 January 2008) was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher. He…

(a letter of self-worth)

Yes you, you who thinks you are not enough.

You who tries tirelessly
to do everything you can to show that you are deserving of love,
worthy to be here in this world,
but always worrying that it is not enough.
You that feels it is what you are able to do that shows your value instead of who you are. This letter is for you.

Because here is the thing –
the day you were born the world sang;
for never before was there anyone like you, magnificent you,
just for being.

So now as you try to fill your days doing things that make you feel valuable the truth is:
your true value is in being the one and only you.

No matter your successes,
your failures,
the way you choose to live your life. You are Enough.

I know you think that all…