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This Ordinary Day
Turn ordinary things into extraordinary things. Ordinary things become extraordinary when we focus on them. Pay attention. Live consciously.

Marlane Ainsworth
Dec 3, 20212 min read


You Are a Camera On Legs
You are a camera, making your own daily movie. Make your movie meaningful. Stop looking at things and start seeing them.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 26, 20212 min read


Do You Long for Divine Qualities in Your Relationships?
Express divine qualities like stability and resilience in relationships. Pay mindful attention to what is happening in the relationship now.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 19, 20212 min read


Playing the Harmonica
What happens when you listen with the ear of your heart, not just the ear of your mind? You hear something new. Naming things limits things.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 12, 20212 min read


How to Be a Decent Human Being
Lovingkindness is when you step in to create a beautiful, artistic moment. You sense what the moment requires & become a decent human being.

Marlane Ainsworth
Nov 5, 20213 min read


A Weird Party Invitation
I have a life (form) and I am life (formless). I am both becoming (doing, thinking, planning) and being (connecting to my formless essence)

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 29, 20212 min read


Thoughts While Washing Dishes
Mundane tasks teach us about life. Six lessons while washing dishes Sunday morning. Work. Dirt. Detergent. Water. Plughole. Window.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 22, 20213 min read


Mindfulness and Spiders
Living with mindfulness. Mindfulness can be forgotten during unexpected events. It's hard to be mindful when there's a spider nearby.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 15, 20212 min read


Humans and Mushrooms
We grow personally when we go through hard times, when we feel in the dark. Being in the dark can become a time of personal growth.

Marlane Ainsworth
Oct 8, 20212 min read


Don't Look Forward
Trees talk to us. Their quiet presence tells us to be calm and present, to look around, not forward.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 29, 20211 min read


Your Secret Garden
Gardens take time, patience and love. The secret garden inside us is where we grow what we will share with the world.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 24, 20212 min read


The Cave I Feared to Enter
Living with mindfulness. Joseph Campbell said, The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Examine what you fear to face up to.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 17, 20212 min read


Why Wonder Comes Before Wisdom
Living with mindfulness. Experience daily mindfulness. A simple path to mindfulness is to live with wonder. Wonder comes before wisdom.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 10, 20212 min read


Life Is a Tapestry
Living with mindfulness. Easy tips to experience mindfulness. Life is like a tapestry. You are warp and weft. You are weaver and thread.

Marlane Ainsworth
Sep 3, 20212 min read


Life Isn't a Waiting Room
Living with mindfulness. Easy tips to experience everyday mindfulness. A simple path from impatience to mindfulness. How to stop worrying.

Marlane Ainsworth
Aug 27, 20212 min read


A Silent Retreat Teaches Me About Pain
Living with mindfulness. Vipassana ten-day silent retreat. Acceptance of pain. All things interconnected. Thich Nhat Hanh.

Marlane Ainsworth
Aug 20, 20213 min read


What is the Best Way to Die?
Living with mindfulness. Easy tips to experience everyday mindfulness. A simple path to mindfulness. Death can be a doorway for mindfulness.

Marlane Ainsworth
Aug 13, 20213 min read


The Mundane and the Miraculous
Living with mindfulness. Easy tips. A simple path to mindfulness is to live with the perspective that all people, places, things, and event

Marlane Ainsworth
Aug 6, 20212 min read


Connecting With Earth, Breath, and Sky
Living with mindfulness. Easy tips. A simple path to mindfulness is sense the ground is your support, your breath is your anchor, and the sk

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 30, 20213 min read


What Napoleon and I Have in Common
Living with mindfulness. Easy mindfulness tips. A simple way to bring mindfulness into your life is to notice your ego. Napoleon's ego hurt

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 23, 20212 min read
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