On Monday, I went to a meditation class. After an extensive meditation, during which the teacher, Gabrielle Bernstein, went around the room offer guidance to each of us based on the energy she was picking up, she told me that I had to visualize my negative thoughts and energy lifting up and escaping from my…
The Undercurrent of Happy
I remember telling S on our second date, walking down Broadway all the way from Roseland Ballroom where we saw Kings of Leon, that I had been picturing myself shedding shards of glass, as if they were the negative thoughts and energy that I was carrying around. I don’t know what we were talking about,…
The One About the Wise Cherokee…
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, worry, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego….
Synchronicity
Okay, so I have become a student in A Course in Miracles. I never would have thought it. But there I was, listening to Gabrielle Bernstein’s podcast lectures and then, not weeks later, in an East Village monastery (yes, a monastery, with real live monks, right there on First Avenue) listening to a group of…
The Show Is Over
So, National Poetry Month is over, but the poets haven’t left me alone just yet. I was listening to Studio 360, one of my favorite weekend NPR programs, and Quang Bao, a Vietnamese-American poet, was asked to describe the work of art that had the biggest impact on his life. (This is an ongoing series…