Find Your Middle Ground

Category: Inner Wisdom

  • * Tao Inspiration – Acceptance and Peace

      Accept the world as it is. If you accept the world, the Tao will be luminous inside you and you will return to your primal self. ~~~ She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found…

  • * Elf Awareness

    A good friend of mine is embracing her inner “elf” this holiday season. It does make me smile 🙂 What would your Inner Elf look like? We think of elves as those pixie like creatures that help out Santa. They work hard and play.  They make mistakes and laugh.  They are sometimes impulsive yet kind. They…

  • * All Things Change

      All things arise Suffer change And pass away. This is their nature. When you know this … …you become still. It is easy. The Ashtavakra Gita We spend so much time and energy avoiding the way life actually unfolds, and most of the time we are unaware that we are doing this. We have…

  • * Mantra for Today – direction

    This mantra can really bring about a profound change in your thinking and give you valuable insight into the direction you are heading. Use it when you not sure which way to go … are going round in circles … or are wanting to make the best choice. Its time to apply one of the…

  • * Haiku – roam

    ~ Find your Middle Ground The temple is within you where ever you roam ~

  • * A Question that Makes me Pause

    At the beginning of my journey of self exploration into awakening … there was one question that was most helpful for me. It helped me find my own Middle Ground – that place where I could let go of thinking, judgment and blame. Where I begin to relax, accept the way things are and find…

  • *Mantra for Today – showing up

    This mantra is for when you have something big coming up. Always remember these three simple directions. Nothing more is required! Prepare (what needs to be done) Show up (be present) Do my best (nothing more or less)

  • * Become Aware of Silence

    “When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.” Eckhart Tolle What a great reminder that we can be more than beings of habit and conditioning. Becoming the witness to this inner still alertness,…

  • * Inspiration – Impact

    “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”                                        …

  • * Sell the Goat

      This story about a man, his family, a rabbi and a goat caught my attention in Judith Lasater’s  foundational and transformational book “Living Your Yoga”. “A villager lived in a tiny house with his wife, 6 children, mother-in-law, a cow, and some chickens. It was making him crazy. So he went to the village…

  • * Reflections – People are our Mirrors

    No pun intended here 😉 just some morning musings… There is an old saying, “It takes one to know one.” We see in others what we like and don’t like in ourselves.     If people are our mirrors, then everyone is a reflection of myself. Its important for me to accept others for who…

  • When Life Unravels

    When life unravels Breathe deeply Find your Middle Ground Be kind The yarn of your life Will be reunited and retold ♥︎