When we travel, we have the opportunity to increase our awareness of the world at large. Many of my experiences have hit a chord within me that broadened my worldview and reminded me of the inherent connection we all share regardless of our culture, nationality, religion and gender.
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(0) Comments | Posted September 13, 2012 | 3:25 PM
In my world there are no accidents. If I'm listening, everyone is my guru. So here I am at The Center for Living Peace in southern California, teaching a workshop entitled Love You 365 with my friend and workshop co-founder, Kelly Thornton Smith. In the workshop,...
(0) Comments | Posted August 10, 2012 | 5:55 PM
I had a dream a couple nights ago. A mysterious figure was speaking to me about the meaning of the word "tolerance." The voice instructed me to wake up, get out of bed and write down the content of my dream, but I refused, certain I would remember everything. When...
(7) Comments | Posted July 10, 2012 | 11:16 AM
I was first introduced to Eckhart Tolle's teachings many years ago, while wandering through a bookstore on Michigan Ave. in Chicago. His book called to me, as books often do. Standing by itself on an empty display table across the crowded store was a lone copy of
(2) Comments | Posted June 20, 2012 | 1:20 PM
Ten years ago, while I was attending a retreat in which we were delving into our negative beliefs about ourselves, a woman said, "I just realized I've been living with an emotional abuser my whole life. It's me. I'm the abuser." Her words hit home and changed the way I...
(0) Comments | Posted May 30, 2012 | 12:40 PM
On a recent trip to the dreamy sun-washed landscape of Newport Beach, Calif., to celebrate the second birthday for the Center for Living Peace, my friend Kelly Smith's labor of love that brings peacemakers from the community and abroad to inspire people to live peace, I indulged in...
(0) Comments | Posted May 2, 2012 | 3:36 PM
I'm among the throngs of avid early-morning exercisers at the gym. Ten large TVs loom above my Stairmaster blasting a potpourri of programming, all competing for my attention.
I resist the lure of E! Hollywood True Story, since I'm fairly certain I'll be swept into someone else's drama only to...
(0) Comments | Posted April 11, 2012 | 5:16 PM
My husband and I enter an online lottery to win tickets to Oprah's Life Class Live, because we love Oprah and she is coming to our hometown -- NYC. We don't win.
Fast-forward a month later, I'm in a meeting with someone, and he randomly mentions he'd just met Tony...
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(0) Comments | Posted October 6, 2012 | 12:49 PM