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The Easiest New Year’s Resolution of All

Fresh beginnings, a fresh new you—that is the promise of the New Year. But then there’s the pesky problem of actually keeping those New Year’s resolutions (lose weight, go to bed earlier, drink less coffee, etc..). When we have the best of intentions, and these are all good things to do for ourselves, why is it so difficult to make them stick?

Perhaps we need to look at the word “resolve” in a new way. A real resolution comes from deep inside. Resolve itself is a kind of connection with one’s own inner Being. If resolve comes from the inside, it will have a much greater chance of success.

Raising the Bar: A Better Life for Women Attorneys

Last summer I attended the New Mexico Bar Convention in order to earn my annual Continuing Legal Education credits. The convention started off with its usual plenary session.  This year, however, the topic was one

Mother in Law: TM and Elder Care

I’m no spring chicken but compared to my mother-in-law who is 99, and barring unwelcome surprises, I’ve got a long way to go. I’ve enjoyed a life virtually free from disease and filled with adventure

Health Care or Disease Care?

Has anyone other than health care administrators and politicians actually read the Obama plan for health care reform? It is long and complex and can give you a migraine just reading it. As much as

Sharing Expressions of Inner Silence with my Parents

My discovery that there is a field of Being—a silent source of creativity, intelligence and bliss deep within human awareness and at the basis of all of existence—changed my life. Gaining this knowledge not only on the level of concept, but far more importantly, on an experiential level, has rewarded me with riches beyond measure.

Throughout time and space, spiritual persons who have fathomed this field themselves have sought to remind us of our potential, sometimes called “enlightenment.” To discover this possibility, as a young person seeking for something more than the dismal grip of the status quo, was the turning point in my life.

Yearning for More: The Quest for Enlightenment, Part Three

Cosmic Consciousness: Functioning Within the Wellspring of Fullness

In my last post, Part Two of this series, I talked about the first of the higher states of consciousness, Transcendental Consciousness. In this blog we will talk about the next higher state of consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness, which unfolds naturally through the alternation of transcending with activity.

Cosmic Consciousness, the Normal State of Awareness

Persons who have had glimpses of the blissful serenity of pure consciousness describe the naturalness and familiarity of such experiences, as if something profoundly familiar—but lost—had been found again.

Balancing Our Inner Gender Roles

Last summer I had the opportunity to hear Pearl Means, the wife of the Indian activist and artist Russell Means, speak at an event sponsored by the Global Mother Divine Organization in Fairfield, Iowa. Pearl, who is carrying on the legacy her husband started, believes that matriarchy is the main difference between indigenous cultures and modern cultures.

She says that historically it is the women elders who are most respected in her Lakota nation. Even today, she says, “they are the last to speak, and when they speak, everyone else listens,” she says.

The Power of Silence: Unplugging for the Holidays

As women, many of us are the heart of holiday preparations, making sure everyone is fed, comfortable and entertained. We give, give, give, often to the point of exhaustion. Yet, could our silence also be

Everything Comes from Nothing

Stephen Hawking, the man often considered to be the most intelligent person on the planet, wrote a book detailing the origins of the universe. In a passage excerpted in the Times of London, we read: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”

Beautiful Just the Way You Are

Anyone who has been an adolescent girl knows the kind of crazy and negative thought patterns that can circulate through the brain when a girl thinks of her own body. I remember spending hours in