How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the wonder. What is the wonder? I don’t know. We can’t know such things through thinking. But we always know it when it’s there. –Charlotte Joko Beck
Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi’s secret to maintaining flow:
The only solution [...]

More on why:
“There have been civilizations that did not use the wheel, but there are no civilizations that did not use story.” – Ursula Le Guin
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives — the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as [...]

First Google Earth, then Google Moon…now Google Mars
Cool - looking forward to the next variation! 

We find what we seek - what are you searching for?

A chance encounter with two month old baby Liam, and his mother today led to this term…I had remarked how excited I am by new borns - they come into the world as a person, yet for the first 2-5years most things they experience are completely new! Everything has a freshness and wonder to it…their labels [...]

Seems to be a Rumi day - to experience "the feeling of joy when sudden disappointment comes is a hard lesson to learn, but I think a very important one. You just never know what might have been on the path had you continued in that direction - happy reading!
Joy in Sudden Dissapointment
Whatever comes, comes from a [...]

A story is like water that you heat for your bath.   It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet and it cleans you!  Very few can sit down in the middle of the fire itself like a salamander or Abraham We need intermediaries.  A feeling of fullness comes,  but usually [...]

I’m not John Lennon but I must admit, at some point surely we will be able to live and work wherever we want, unbounded by visa’s etc. We already live in a world where work can be done from ‘virtually’ anywhere - you would think that countries would be asking to have you pay tax [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while - next time you want to get rid of some books, consider freeing them! 
For quite a while now, Book Crossing has been transforming the world into a library with no fines and no due back date (though sadly, no guarantees for re-borrowing once you’ve freed it). [...]

“Out beyond the ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field — I’ll meet you there.” 
- Jalaluddin Rumi