A formula to ensure you have lots of surprises in 2026: Pay attention, so you notice the surprise. Spend time in total wonder so the surprise lasts longer than just a few seconds. Feel and express gratitude.

Rumi says, Die before you die. This means, Let go of the dead stuff so you can really live until you really die.

Old, stale, repetitive thoughts, beliefs and emotions hide the incredible magnificence of the moment I'm experiencing from me.

Three short, sweet, simple three-word mantras to say when life gets difficult. Who am I? Let it be. All is well.

Fear is a human habit. Its benefits are overrated. We’ve come to believe we need it to function, but we don’t. Just being fully aware is a better option.

Good intentions and paying attention are inextricably bound up in one another. You can’t have one without the other. An intention can’t be good unless it involves attention.

Byron Katie's series of questions can set you free from crippling, life-long beliefs.

We each create our own heaven and hell throughout the day by how we live.

If you want something and can't find it, make it yourself, DIY. Whether it's a yellow teapot or a bit of peace in the world.

I’ve often thought I should attend a Japanese Tea Ceremony as a way of quieting my soul. But the urge has left me now that I’ve attended Angelika’s Fire Lighting Ceremony.

Suffering is a mental habit which eases or ceases when we accept – bear, hold up, carry, allow – what life has presented us with and begin to work with the aspects of the situation that are within our control.

There are all sorts of garden soils and all sorts of family soils. Families are all imperfect in their own way. Ask yourself, What sort of soil are you being right now?

The sun shines on everything in its path. No judging, withholding or discriminating. When we are sunshine, we’re like the sun. The good that we do goes on and on and on.

You are a part of nature. Your life is seasonal. You are an eternal, unstoppable flow.

Seeds are a reminder that everything starts small and that we already have all that we need.

Importance and insignificance are two sides of the same coin of myself. Live consciously so I do the least harm but in the context of eternity, my life is brief.

When we sit with Grief, a door to consciousness will open and we will glimpse or feel something intangible and eternal. And be comforted.

Being present is a calm space paradoxically filled with energy. It’s suffused with a normally elusive sense of abiding peace and joy.

Flying by the seat of my pants means to instinctively respond to what is happening, to figure out what to do as things unfold.

Stoics say that what's in the way is the way, There's no such thing as an obstacle.