Category: DEEP THOUGHTS

Advance In Retreat…

Posted on by Callie
  How can I live life fully?  This is one of the central questions that goes through the mind of any seeker.  It is a question I ask myself often, or more precisely, daily.  Through lots of reading, writing, thinking, exploring, I often feel like I'm on the verge of...

Resisting Arrest: Mind Runs Amok!

Posted on by Callie
By Day 3, I fully expected to be dealing with a reasonable mind, ready on repeat mode for morning meditation.  But expectation always gets me into trouble.  While I was greeted so far each morning with a relatively calm, willing, and open self, today I was greeted by a fugitive. ...

Reflections on the Breath…

Posted on by Callie
  Setting the tone for your day EveryDay is really important.  I’ve done this for years with my own morning rituals, allowing myself ample time to get ready for my day.  The addition of this new morning meditation – now only on Day 2 – so far is proving to be much easier to...

How To Make Time To Breathe….

Posted on by Callie
It’s been almost 2 years since I started doing yoga on a weekly basis.  I’ve fluctuated between once and twice a week over this time, and on occasion, I’ve missed a up to a few weeks in a row.  Recently, I’ve been trying to up my practice to three times a week, which hasn’t...

In Memoriam

Posted on by Callie
In Memory of my cousin Stavroula For a long time I chose to see that my cousin was a strong, fierce, unbending, and unstoppable force.  And she absolutely was.  Her combative nature, while not always easy to accept in everyday life, was exactly what was necessary for what life was to...

Are You Awake Yet?

Posted on by Callie
As we get older, many of us start to look deeper for meaning in our lives.  We want to find our purpose, our reason for being.  We want to fill the void, piece together the puzzle that is life and finally make sense of it all.  We want to wake up to what we've been missing...