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Life Lesson From a Winter Lake
A lake comes to our place every winter. Frogs call an incessant anthem to life, seasons, growth, loss, change. And then the lake goes.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 20, 20192 min read


What Is Mindfulness?
The present moment is full of possibilities. Mindfulness surrounds this moment with the space in which your meaningful response can arise.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 13, 20193 min read
Can You Find Purity in the Mud of Everyday Life?
You think that to become a person of purity you need to throw away your shoes, put on a cotton robe and head for the hills.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jul 6, 20192 min read


Do You Need to be Told How to Live?
I’ll never forget to access the deep down true self of inner knowing. Most answers lie within me.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 29, 20193 min read


Where Does Happiness Dwell?
Happiness is a result. It ensues – arises – out of something else. And that ‘something else’ is the state of mindful immersion in the moment

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 22, 20193 min read


Does Your Life Have Meaning?
Life is questioning you. How you live is your answer to life. Your answer is the meaning.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 15, 20192 min read


Mindfulness Helps You Be More Than Human
When I forget myself, take up whatever is presented to me in the moment, and do what must be done, this is mindfulness.

Marlane Ainsworth
Jun 8, 20193 min read


Being Human Only Requires 3 Things
Let's use our minds differently. We'll still plan, decide and wonder, but we won’t worry. We don’t have to worry. Worry is optional.

Marlane Ainsworth
May 24, 20193 min read


No Man is an Island
I am the me in my passport but I am also connected to everyone in the world. I am a piece of humanity, a part of the whole.

Marlane Ainsworth
May 4, 20192 min read


Walking Each Other Home
"When all is said and done, we’re really just all walking each other home." (Ram Dass)

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 27, 20191 min read


Destiny Happens Every Day to Everyone
Destiny happens every day to everyone. We destine ourselves by what we do every day.

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 20, 20192 min read


Stop Acting and Start Living Today
What would happen if I stopped acting my life and started living it instead? Personal honesty is a pathway to freedom.

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 13, 20192 min read


Why Isn't Opportunity Knocking on My Door?
Opportunity knocks on me. In countless ways.
Every day. So I’ll open the door that is myself.
And Opportunity can walk right in!

Marlane Ainsworth
Apr 6, 20192 min read


Ten Thousand Things
Lao Tzu wrote about the unnamed and the named. The unnamed is hidden; a mystery; unknowable; oneness.

Marlane Ainsworth
Mar 30, 20192 min read


Trailing Clouds of Glory
Sometimes we feel faint reminders that there’s more to us than we think; that we are loved not only here, but elsewhere.

Marlane Ainsworth
Mar 23, 20192 min read


Can You Separate the Dancer from the Dance?
You and I are dancers. Our lives are an endless choreography of stillness and movement within space.

Marlane Ainsworth
Mar 16, 20191 min read


What I Learned From The Cat in the Hat
You don’t know if you can do something unless you try! Things usually get worse before they get better!

Marlane Ainsworth
Mar 9, 20192 min read


What Stephen Hawking Whispered in My Ear.
We all have a part to play in the life unfolding around us. We can’t all be great scientists, but we can all be great people in our own way.

Marlane Ainsworth
Mar 2, 20192 min read
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