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

Marlane Ainsworth
2 days ago3 min read


Is Fear Helpful?
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 144 min read


The Road to Hell Isn't Paved With Good Intentions
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 312 min read


Who Would You Invite to Dinner?
Byron Katie's series of questions can set you free from crippling, life-long beliefs.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 265 min read


I'm a Mixture of Heaven and Hell
We each create our own heaven and hell throughout the day by how we live.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 53 min read


I Fell in Love with a Yellow Teapot
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Aug 13 min read


Angelika's Fire-Lighting Ceremony
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 262 min read


Six Messages from a Wild Garden: Suffering
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 113 min read


Six Messages from a Wild Garden
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?

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 42 min read


Six Messages from a Wild Garden
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 273 min read


Six Messages from a Wild Garden
You are a part of nature. Your life is seasonal. You are an eternal, unstoppable flow.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 203 min read


Six Messages from a Wild Garden
Seeds are a reminder that everything starts small and that we already have all that we need.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 142 min read


A Lesson from Macbeth
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.

Marlane Ainsworth
May 303 min read


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

Marlane Ainsworth
May 233 min read


What Does "Being Present" Feel Like?
Being present is a calm space paradoxically filled with energy. It’s suffused with a normally elusive sense of abiding peace and joy.

Marlane Ainsworth
May 13 min read


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

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 235 min read


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

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 113 min read


Find Gold In Every Moment
Find the gold – something precious, something illuminating, something with an eternal glow about it – in every moment, every situation.

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 43 min read


Life Is a Messy Process
My garden is a process. My life is a process. Other people's lives are a process. Life is a perfect, messy process.

Marlane Ainsworth
Mar 213 min read


You Can't Run Out of Patience
Patience is presence. You can't run out of patience. Impatience is a form of madness.

Marlane Ainsworth
Feb 64 min read
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