A great summer party gift for the host that keeps giving: a stainless steel water bottle. Perhaps 1 for each family member? You can hardly do better — if the water of the region is reasonably clean. It will eliminate the need for plastic bottles. It is so practical that you can be sure thatContinue reading “Zero Waste Gifting”
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Keep Your Home, Daughter of the Earth
After a long journey,home feels so good, so welcoming,so refreshing yet fully familiar. After the long journey of the mind,you arrive at home again,your innate spirituality,your belonging to mother Earth. She gives you the same welcomeand comfort and sense of sanitythat all your travels couldn’t— because she is home. Why would you changefor a trip,orContinue reading “Keep Your Home, Daughter of the Earth”
For Next Time
The pattern can be broken. Any pattern. Just choose better. Sometimes the answer comes after thinking deep and hard about the issue too, about how you were responsible and how much or how little it had to do with you. And the answer is the same: choose better for yourself. Choose better. Make it yourContinue reading “For Next Time”
Rut? (What Rut?) Priorities! Flux.
There is no rut. There are routines that give your life stability, more calm, perhaps even more harmony. You benefit from that. That is not what a rut is. There are certain habits that keep you stuck. But you can change them. Not instantly maybe, but by moving into the habits that you prefer, gradually.Continue reading “Rut? (What Rut?) Priorities! Flux.”
Home Is the Body That Holds Your Heart
After every long trip, coming home feels familiar, satisfying and floods you with the love you have put into every detail of your life. The same applies when you drop into your body, after being on a spiritual journey for a long, long time. All the treasures you have sought, or admired in the outside,Continue reading “Home Is the Body That Holds Your Heart”
The Daily Power of Love
If you don’t know how to help a person, send them love telepathically. You can do it silently too. And please receive the kindness of others. A kinder world can only be realized by cooperation. The support of others will boost your belief in it. You don’t have to walk all alone. Once you areContinue reading “The Daily Power of Love”
Oh, Canada, Our Grass Is Greener Because We Water It
Very quietly, without much coverage from the press, Canada has turned itself into a country with a very booming economy and also (a noticeably) reduced poverty. The downside of it is that people are less politically involved (politically interested, attached, or active), but the upside is that so many people are living with more easeContinue reading “Oh, Canada, Our Grass Is Greener Because We Water It”
New Discovery In Music
It is very satisfying to discover a genre or a musician I don’t know well yet and with whom I click instantaneously. Reinhardt Buhr, born in South Africa in 1988, composes for God, in gratitude for his sobriety. That sounds a bit sterile in words, but his music is incredibly rich, juicy, surprising, meditative andContinue reading “New Discovery In Music”
Make the Good Famous
What a pleasant surprise when you hear a previously almost unknown musician or band on the radio or while walking through a mall. You have known them for a few years, because you love music. Not because you gravitate to “alternative”, but because you gravitate to quality music. Though now mainstream music covers hoes andContinue reading “Make the Good Famous”
The Gold of Love and the Brass of Self-Assertion
The phrase “I love you” is often used for reasons of seduction, self-centredness (“I love myself .. when you are around”), therapeutically (“I am feeling awkward and don’t know what else to say”). Maybe that is fine? It just does not mean what it says: “I love you. I care about YOU.” The person whoContinue reading “The Gold of Love and the Brass of Self-Assertion”
Taking In Beauty as a Spiritual Practice
Many years ago, my sister visited Thailand and mentioned to her travel partner how much I would enjoy the setting there and told me in an offhand way: “I am looking for you too”, implying that her filling herself up with beautiful impressions would somehow, on a telepathic level, reach me, and that her self-loveContinue reading “Taking In Beauty as a Spiritual Practice”
A Teaching Moment
Plants – vegetables, fruit, flowers, bushes, trees – are worth every fatigue they might cause you while you tend to them. Unfortunately, you can’t say the same of people. Hmm. When you garden, you develop the traits and the manner that will improve all your relationships with people. Plants teach patience, respect, appreciation, receiving andContinue reading “A Teaching Moment”
Attachment
Everything in nature is attached to each other. Everything in nature is about attachment. Attachment is a good thing. The problems start when you get attached to the unnatural world, to man-made principles, people who don’t have your best in mind, people who couldn’t care less if they harm you. Attachments to uninspiring activities andContinue reading “Attachment”
Unexpected Kindness, Revisited
About a decade ago, I was coping with a situation that I found hard to free myself from and that was close to tragic. (I don’t use extreme descriptions for situations that are less than tragic, but that one was a downer in the category of “I don’t wish that on my enemies, ever”.) AContinue reading “Unexpected Kindness, Revisited”
Heirloom
May the beauty nature has given you,may the beauty the ancestors have saved for you,may the beauty you have grownmove you forward. NJ 28 June 2019
A New Day for Love
A new day to cherish the life forcethat runs through every living beingand me too.A new day to bless my homeand the feeling of home in it.A new day given by the earth and the sunwho in their tantric danceand their love for lifemake food for the bodyand food for the soul.A new day toContinue reading “A New Day for Love”
Under the Fig Tree
Were you the forbidden treein the Garden of Eden?Did Eve bite into your fruitto find out if Adam really loved her?Or because she wanted toknow what the Goddess knew,the One worshipped before God? My dear fig,you are the tree of trees,so regal and feminine,drenched with the heat of the sun.Your children taste sweetand smile evenContinue reading “Under the Fig Tree”
Why do we adore cats so much?
Let’s face it, we all want to be them. Do exactly what we want to do, disapprove when we feel like it, ignore things that don’t interest us, sleep all day, be hilarious, and look cute forever. No animal in the world can give a better look of disdain than a cat. And yet, weContinue reading “Why do we adore cats so much?”
“I Am Pleased. Let’s Keep Going.”
Those who underdeliver and overpromise tend to forget that they were given enough time to make an impact. This attitude – often coupled with the warning that you will never know anyone like them – can be traced back to advertising tricks: it is always about the future and that future never comes. Someone committedContinue reading ““I Am Pleased. Let’s Keep Going.””
The Dream That Provides the Solution
I love dreams that provide solutions to a burning question. Last night I had a fabulous dream that gave me the emotional energy that I will recognize when I experience it in the real plane. The content of my dream is less interesting to you*, but you can draw from it two things: A –Continue reading “The Dream That Provides the Solution”
Nanda Jurela 