What Happens When You Retire?
What will happen when I retire? What will I do? Life will happen and I will respond.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Sep 16
- 3 min
From the Isle of Lewis to Evergreen
Feel the earth beneath your feet. History repeats itself. Isle of Lewis peat.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Sep 2
- 3 min
A Tall Tree Teaches Us About Life
Every move we make, every thought we have and every emotion we feel, rearranges molecules and energy, and thus changes the world.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Aug 19
- 3 min
The Story of You
Live without the story you tell about yourself. Forget you have a name and a past. Just be present. This will bring you peace.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Aug 5
- 3 min
Living Without a Parachute
Accept what has happened, then act. Acceptance is a state of being. Let go of your parachute of beliefs about life.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Jul 22
- 3 min
Acceptance Is Powerful
Surrender and accept what is. Doing this leads you to perfect action – because they bring you to full consciousness.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Jul 15
- 3 min
The Teas in My Life
Tea ceremony. Consciously sipping tea can provide a doorway into mindfulness, into presence, into awareness, and into unity with everyone.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Jul 8
- 3 min
Do You Lead a Lucid Life?
Awareness doesn’t have emotions and thoughts. Awareness is just aware. It’s the great observer. It is universal consciousness.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Jun 22
- 3 min
Life Is the Dancer
Be one with life. Align yourself with the most powerful energy that exists - Life. Allow life to direct the dance you perform.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Jun 10
- 4 min
3 Ways to Answer Unanswerable Questions
3 ways to answer seemingly unanswerable questions: stick to facts; ask another question; admit you don't know.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- May 20
- 3 min
Be Willing.
Forget willpower. Fill your days with being willing. To be willing to do something doesn't involve thought at all once you're willing.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Apr 29
- 4 min
Weeds, Wrinkles and Alzheimer's Disease
Accept what happens, even Alzheimer's disease. Accepting what happens opens a doorway into the now for you to work with what is.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Apr 22
- 2 min
Hindsight Is Beautiful
Use hindsight to see synchronicity in your life, the strange confluence of events that fell into place because of decisions you made.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Apr 15
- 2 min
Are You in the Doldrums?
Being in the doldrums is time out from intense living, an important part of the cycle of life when new seeds can grow and be noticed.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Apr 8
- 3 min
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
You don't need to go somewhere over the rainbow to experience wonder and happiness. They are found amongst the dirt of everyday existence.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Mar 24
- 2 min
When Things Fall Apart
Suffering ceases when we accept what is and begin to work with it. Suffering teaches us what we need to know.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Why Should You Pay Attention?
Why you should pay attention. Nothing matters when you pay attention. Everything matters when you don't. Mindfulness means a worry-free life
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Feb 18
- 3 min
How to Lose All Fear
Fear of snakes. Fear makes us freeze. Awareness is better than fear. The Upanishads say to lose all fear by seeing all beings in ourselves.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Feb 10
- 3 min
Everything Comes
Sapiens: A Graphic History, by Harari about the emergence of humankind, from ape to genetic code manipulator, reminds me how brief life is.
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Marlane Ainsworth
- Jan 14
- 2 min
I Am a Bit Of Weather
What happens when you live in the context of eternity? You calm down. You are at peace with yourself and life events. You become mindful.
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