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.

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

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

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

Being out of our comfort zone helps us grow in qualities like thankfulness, compassion, forgiveness, resourcefulness and patience.

Change is inevitable. Acceptance keeps us in the flow of ever-changing life. It helps us work best with what is happening.

The garden teaches me things, like how to respond to the ups and downs of life, including death.

A sneak peek of our soon-to-be-released book, What My Garden Told Me. Excerpt from topic Autumn Leaves.

Accepting what is immerses us in the invisible energetic spring of possibility, which is another way of referring to the divine.