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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


The Divine Purpose of the Universe
Living with mindfulness. Easy mindfulness tips. How to be mindful every day. Divine purpose of the universe. Being and doing.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 16, 20212 min read


What is Truth?
Living with mindfulness. Easy mindfulness tips. How to be mindful every day. Truth sets you free. Let go of limiting thoughts.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 9, 20212 min read


See the World in a Puddle of Pond Water
Living with mindfulness. See the world in a puddle of pond water, and heaven in you. Inspired by William Blake.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 2, 20212 min read


Messing About in Life
Living with mindfulness. There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in life.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 26, 20212 min read


What Is Flower Power?
Living with mindfulness. Flowers are silent. That is part of their beauty.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 18, 20211 min read


What is Your Weak Spot?
Living with mindfulness. A simple way to eliminate a weakness is to replace it with its opposite. When you feel impatient, let go of impatie

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 11, 20212 min read


The Fall of Man and Leaves
Living with mindfulness. The Fall of Man and the Fall of Leaves are part of life. Like an autumn leaf, you are spectacular when you fall.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 5, 20212 min read


Fun at a Funeral
Living with mindfulness. Life has salty and sweet moments. And sometimes the salty and sweet are mixed together, like at funerals.

Marlane Ainsworth
May 27, 20212 min read


Love Is
Living with mindfulness. Love is a verb. It’s a doing word. It happens in moments where curiosity, openness and acceptance dwell.

Marlane Ainsworth
May 21, 20212 min read
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