A Mindful Life

Human interaction follows the basic rhythm of moving toward, then moving away, like ocean waves against the shore. Feeling at ease with this pattern is part of the art of living.
It is important to learn that one can sustain a loss and endure. Able to move apart as well as to come together, [...]

I have loved in life and I have been loved.I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;My heart has been [...]

It slipped past me. Yesterday was the first anniversary of this blog. It’s transformed a bit over time, focusing a bit more on what interests me personally and not as much a series of links to mental health sites and articles. I know I’ve garnered a few dedicated readers, and I thank [...]

In our supposedly nonjudgmental, acceptance-valuing culture, control-freak style mavens are all over TV, telling people what’s wrong with them, and audiences eat it up. What gladiators were to ancient Rome, makeovers are to us today: bloody spectacles for the masses to watch the abject fight for their lives. The slaves of yore are now women [...]

Touch memory’s face
as it basks in downy light,
shielded from time’s whim.

“Let It Last…” by Sergey Lysak ©2003 / ephotograph.com

If anyone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.
–Gayan: Gamakas
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid ‘Inayat Khan
In my previous post I joked about how bourgeois I’ve become. For many years I struggled financially, working at meager-wage jobs while getting my undergraduate degree. [...]

Years ago I read Your Money or Your Life, and it startled me into awareness that money is the item for which I exchange my life energy. Essentially, every dollar I spend is a part of my life expended. I don’t get it back; thus, I ought to give consideration to how I [...]

From the The Geek Handbook:
1.4.3 Your Geek Spouse or Lover
Although the geek relationship does pose challenges in formation and in practice, it can be a very rewarding one for both parties. Geeks are loving and supportive partners, they can fix things, and they rarely stray. They love children and often share their interests. [...]

He is an unbeliever who cannot believe in himself. The trust of someone who trusts another but does not trust himself is profitless. But someone who trusts another because he trusts himself has the real trust, and by this trust in himself he can make his life happy whatever his condition may be.
–Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid `Inayat [...]

In case it isn’t obvious, I’m back! It’s good to be more settled, although there are still wall-hangings to nail up, bookcases to buy, and books to unpack. Otherwise, though, this house is cozy and feeling like home. The backyard is just like a second living room; the California climate entices one [...]