I have written earlier about learning to honor your own instincts when you are figuring out what kind of exercise would work best for you. For me, it’s been yoga because of its scope for gentleness and its emphasis on the mind-body connection. The other part of this equation is learning to eat correctly. […]
The Charms of Beauty
In Alexandra Stoddard’s delightful book, The Decoration of Houses, she talks about the art of making our homes a haven. We can all transform our spaces into a feast for our senses and a well of deep, lasting comfort. This is how she talks about the fabrics we use in dressing up our spaces: […]
Being Creative
In his small and wonderful book, The Courage to Create, Rollo May illuminates the mysterious, glorious subject of creativity in such a wonderful way. I am in love with his mind and his thoughts. Creativity needs encounter, he says, when something inside us meets the outside world, and something new is born into the world. […]
We are always in transition.
Before I’d left for India a week ago, I got a stack of new books from the library. In one of them, Pema Chodron said something that leapt out at me. It went something like this: we are always in transition. Such a simple statement, yet so true. We are always in transition. […]
Finding what works for us
Sometimes, we need a new way of looking at the same thing for us to be able to adopt it fully. I have been doing yoga for the last couple of months now. This is not the first time I’ve attempted yoga. But this is the first time that it has started to work for me. […]
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