Welcome to wholehearted.blog!
Nothing gives me greater joy than inspiring and encouraging people. Hence my blog!
I wanted to create an online oasis, a space to come to revive your heart and soul with life-affirming articles, quotes, poems, comments and musings, all of which accord with the Buddhist philosophy of respecting the dignity of all life.
I particularly have women in mind, to help us come together to strengthen ourselves. I believe that our voices are called for at this time in human history to help bring about a new ethos on our planet. An ethos that respects and supports life, instead of exploiting and destroying it. But of course, like-minded gentlemen are also most welcome!
As Pam Montgomery points out in her wonderful book, Plant Spirit Healing, one of the basic tenets of nature (a.k.a. life) is that of interconnected and and interdependent relationships.
She says, “When we try to do it all ourselves, we often fall short because this is not how nature is designed. Everything in nature is interdependent; nothing stands alone.”
I hope you enjoy the content you find here.
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FeaturedThe Journey Is On
One who continues to advance will win in the end…
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FeaturedThe Art Of Being Yourself
The art of being yourself is never finished. Like the Universe itself, of which you are an integral part, there is no limit to your expansion. That’s what makes it -— and you -— so beautiful.
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FeaturedThe Temptation of Despair
Despair is not your enemy — it’s your reminder to return to hope. Despair tempts you, it’s true. But it also points to where you stopped believing in your own infinite capacity and potential.
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FeaturedForgiveness
“I choose to believe that every single person is doing the best that they can based upon their life experiences up to that point.”
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FeaturedNobody Changes Until They Change Their Energy
Your thought and spoken words are immensely powerful creative tools. You express your life through your inner and outer voice…
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FeaturedHumility versus Ego
Even small acts compound over time to something very interesting if they’re consistent…
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FeaturedWhich Way Do I Go?
I always launched myself into the great unknown and hoped for the best. Not a strategy I’d recommend to anyone…
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FeaturedAttitude of Gratitude
There is no one as strong as a person whose heart is always filled with gratitude…
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FeaturedConfronting Reality
To enjoy true happiness, we should live each moment as if it were our last…
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FeaturedD.W. 10.3.46 – 7.29.25
Two love poems…
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FeaturedEquanimity a.k.a. Life-Surfing
Like peace of mind, I knew inner balance was possible, because other people had it. But I certainly didn’t.
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FeaturedA, B, C, It’s Simple
What if you practised The Alphabet of the Heart?
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FeaturedEnding To Start Again
As we grow older we become weak and sickly and eventually die. But we do not die for nothing; we die in order to start a new life. The fundamental purpose of death is to allow us to be reborn in the next phase of our eternal life.
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FeaturedDifficult, But Worth It!
Why is it so difficult to do the right thing?
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FeaturedReturn Of The Prodigal Daughter
You are not at all the weakened, damaged character who has to feel sorry for herself that you have perceived yourself to be. That’s an illusion. And illusions make your spirit ill.
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FeaturedResistance Is Futile
When you’re resistant, you focus intently on the thing you tell yourself you don’t want. But focusing on it so intently makes you hyper aware of it. Whereas almost casually ignoring it means it doesn’t mean much to you, which is why it leaves your life.
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FeaturedWhat Are Words Worth?
Did you know that your whole life is a prayer, in the sense that you radiate throughout the Universe the vibration of every thought, word, feeling, and their subsequent actions?
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FeaturedWho Knows Where The Time Goes?
Everyone deserves to be happy…
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FeaturedPerfection Is Vastly Overrated
Please forget your ideas and notions about perfection. Life isn’t about perfection. It’s about happiness, joy, courage and compassion.
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FeaturedBe The Change
The transformative power of prayer…
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FeaturedOne for All and All for One
That moment when the unseen becomes the seen – and never forgotten!
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FeaturedTo Sleep, Perchance to Dream…
I have promised my body to give it more sleep.
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FeaturedIt’s A Great Life If You Don’t Weaken
Addictions are about consuming something that gives you a short-term high that you love and crave, only to give you long-term harm that you hate. And feel powerless to change, because it messes up your mind.
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FeaturedThe Universe, Me, and Gratitude
The tricky thing is to be grateful for stuff that doesn’t seem to be good or beneficial, or even fair. Then when I remember, and start to express gratitude in my prayers for even this stuff, it narrows the channels that allow torment into my heart, and I’m able to turn negative into positive.
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FeaturedA Short Chat with The Universe
On focus, faith, belief and trust!
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FeaturedAnother Chat with The Universe
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth! And believe in yourself!
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FeaturedA Chat with The Universe
There is no private good!
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FeaturedA Warrior’s Tale
After 50 years of unsuccessful trying, my life changed in a moment.
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FeaturedChance Encounters
Is chance just a throw of the dice? Or is it more meaningful…
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FeaturedThe Danger of Getting Marooned by a Single Story
I wonder how many times it’ll take before I stop making kneejerk judgements about people based on stereotypes I’ve adopted.
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FeaturedHealing the Heart
Whether you call it the Akashic Records, or the Mystic Law, or the ninth consciousness, my heart has healed this weekend, in wonderful ways.
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FeaturedLie to Me
What if lying to yourself can be a good thing?
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FeaturedA Little Bit of Something
A little bit of something is better than a lot of nothing!
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FeaturedNice Guys Finish First!
Goodness still exists, and nice guys – especially when they’re united in heart and supported by other nice guys – finish first…
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FeaturedHey Joe! Enough!
I’d like to see songs that talk about attacking women as though it’s okay banned from public radio. What do you think?
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FeaturedArt and Soul
Come with me, back in time to a winter afternoon in 2010, as I wandered into the Art Gallery of Ontario, not consciously knowing where I was going, or why…
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FeaturedBuilding a New Life
Years ago – decades, actually – I delved quite deeply into numerology. Montreal, where I lived at the time, had a record and book shop called Phantasmagoria. Such a great name! Anyway, always curious, I felt myself drawn to a particular book titled Numerology, despite its deceptively cheesy subtitle: The Romance in your Name. It… Read more
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FeaturedTransform and Transcend
Trying to fundamentally change your inner life with your thinking or executive mind is much like trying to lift the proverbial chair while you’re sitting on it…
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FeaturedWinging It
In life, everyone is improvising, all the time. You never really know exactly what you’ll have to deal with from moment to moment.
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FeaturedThe Magic in Simple Things
Trying to change your mind, without actually doing something that changes your mind, is a frustrating exercise in futility. It’s like trying to lift the chair you’re sitting on.
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FeaturedAre We Really Humankind?
“What is the dream
inside your head?”
the young girl said.
“Where does it take you?
Does it serve you well?”
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FeaturedConfidentially Speaking
Life is a compassionate entity, and everything we need to sustain life is present here with us on our planet Earth.
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FeaturedConfrontation – oh my!
Nothing is more immediate, or more difficult, than to confront and transform ourselves.
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FeaturedRebirth
We all have a time and place that we emerge into Planet Earth as the unique individual called by our name. Yet no matter where and how we began, a renaissance can occur.
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FeaturedIt’s Different for Girls – Or Is It?
True Buddhism as taught by Nichiren Daishonin reveals that females and males are equally endowed with the potential to manifest Buddhahood.
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FeaturedStop Shoulding on Yourself
Dropping “should” from your thought pattern creates a completely different mindset, and therefore a completely different outcome.
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FeaturedWhat David Bowie and I Had in Common…
Buddhist practice has a way of bringing you answers or messages that you need in sometimes very surprising ways!
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