I keep getting this message: Focus on the love of what you are doing and let go of the form in which you’re hoping your desire will be delivered. I love to write. I do. But, I questioned this for a little while this week and last. After my intenSati training, when I had this [...]
My name is Amanda and I am an addict. Well, okay. With all due respect, I’m not sure if that’s really how it goes down. But I realize that I perhaps have an addictive personality. And by addictive maybe I mean neurotic. But in any case, I realized I am addicted to resentment. I am [...]
On Monday, I went to a meditation class. After an extensive meditation, during which the teacher, Gabrielle Bernstein, went around the room offer guidance to each of us based on the energy she was picking up, she told me that I had to visualize my negative thoughts and energy lifting up and escaping from my [...]
Okay, so I have become a student in A Course in Miracles. I never would have thought it. But there I was, listening to Gabrielle Bernstein’s podcast lectures and then, not weeks later, in an East Village monastery (yes, a monastery, with real live monks, right there on First Avenue) listening to a group of [...]
I haven’t posted in a while, so here is a collection of good thoughts that have helped me in the weeks since I last posted. Last week I received a postcard – really a work of inspired art created by Erin Stutland – at an intenSati class that I attended. It says “I love my life,” [...]
I imagine that when your family runs a business there’s probably as much a pull to blaze your own trail as there is to join the operation and protect the legacy. I always kind of thought of “joining the family business” as sort of a cop-out. Not that I have a family business per say [...]