Category Archives: meditation
Thirsty for Wonder
by Mirabai Starr Contemplative life flows in a circular pattern: awe provokes introspection, which invokes awe. Maybe you’re making dinner and you step outside to snip chives from the kitchen garden just as the harvest moon is rising over the … Continue reading
The World Needs Your Cargo: Kozo Hattori & Sue Cochrane
by Kozo Hattori, Sue Cochrane In July of 2020, beloved ServiceSpace friends Kozo Hattori, and Sue Cochrane, came together for a virtual conversation in the presence of community. Both were navigating stark realities with cancer. Their luminous exchange was threaded with … Continue reading
An Unusual Gift From My Grandfather
by Rachel Naomi Remen Often, when he came to visit, my grandfather would bring me a present. These were never the sorts of things that other people brought, dolls and books and stuffed animals. My dolls and stuffed animals have … Continue reading
The Eyes Are Useless When the Mind Is Blind
by Carlos Mora Molina We invite you to a very unique evening of Meditation & Mindfulness. Our special guest, Carlos Mora, will guide you on an experiential journey of the senses with Mindfulness techniques he has learned through 20 years … Continue reading
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
By Robin Wall Kimmerer [As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and ecological systems to … Continue reading
Two Words That Can Change a Life
by Cheryl Rice Is it possible that two words can change someone’s day, someone’s life? What if those same two words could change the world? Well, I’m on a quest to find out – and, with your help, this quest will … Continue reading
The Spiritual and Healing Power of Dance
by Clyde Fernandes Dancing, personally I feel, is the most underrated form of spirituality. Meditative dancing, if there is such a term, can be used to transcend the boundaries of our consciousness and connect with the source. It’s well documented that Nataraja or … Continue reading
The Power of Now
by Eckhart Tolle One night not long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. The silence of the night, the vague outlines of the furniture in the dark room, the … Continue reading
Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud
by Dr. Maya Angelou There is an African American song 19th Century, which, is so great. It says: “when it looked like the sun wasn’t shining anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds” Imagine! I’ve had so many rainbows … Continue reading