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 Truth Shall Set You Free
We have long accepted the biblical quote “the truth shall set you free” as a truism. But I wonder how often we think about its opposite: Lies shall imprison you.
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FeaturedPay Attention!
It can be said that life is a balancing act. Where you focus your attention makes a significant difference to keeping your balance.
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FeaturedWe Live in Two Worlds
Perhaps because our eyes are directed outwards, we human beings usually look to our environment as the source of our happiness or unhappiness…
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FeaturedGetting Lost in That Hopeless Little Screen
The tendency to believe that only large, grandiose actions lead to change can kill the incentive to make those small changes, little tweaks, that add up over time to something really big.
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FeaturedLost and Found
I was 36 years old, flat broke, two months behind with the rent, I couldn’t get a job to save my life, and Welfare (Social Security) had turned me down…
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FeaturedDo The Work
Where there is resolution, there will also be resistance.
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FeaturedFrom Spiritual Worrier to Spiritual Warrior!
We’re spiritual warriors. But I was far more accustomed to being a spiritual worrier, because my mind’s default programming was fear and dread.
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FeaturedA Ship to Cross The Sea of Suffering
An inner calm is essential in order to realise our dreams. But calmness and I were not very well acquainted.
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FeaturedIt Will Change
In the midst of the horror and the heartbreak in Ukraine, something very good is happening…
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FeaturedSmile please!
Just as the body can follow the mind (I feel happy, so I smile) the mind can equally well follow the body.
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FeaturedOne Step at A Time
I was exhausted last Friday. It felt like torture. After teasing us with a spring-like temperature, melting ice and glimpses of green grass on Wednesday, Mother Nature changed her mind on Thursday and delivered a snowstorm – during the evening rush hour. I watched in horror as my car did a slow-mo, relentless slide into… Read more
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FeaturedMe Too
When I arrived in Montreal in 1974 I believed that my new country would treat me well. Less than a month later, I found out otherwise. (Please don’t read this poem if you are easily triggered.)
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FeaturedListen, I’ll Tell You Something
One of the things I love about my Buddhist practice is that it puts my life in rhythm. I’m not just a little microcosmic cog in a big, unfeeling machine.
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FeaturedBring Back The F Word!
How do you bear with emotional pain in a way that nourishes and nurtures your inner growth?
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FeaturedWeapons of Mass Distraction
Do you ever feel that Life is lining you up for something? Stacking the deck for, or against, you? I do!
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FeaturedOne Thing Leads to Another
A seemingly tiny improvement in how you feel about yourself can make a big difference over time.
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FeaturedAre You Haunted by Your Past?
We breathe a kind of radioactive half-life into our past experiences by re-membering them, and reliving how awful they were, effectively creating zombie memories, phantom memories, which we use to haunt and frighten ourselves.
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FeaturedTeachers and Trees and Healing Trauma
Trauma. PTSD. Nothing warm and fuzzy there. Or is there?
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FeaturedThe Day that Changed My Life Forever
I thought I had no choice but to suffer the effects of all the bad causes I had made. Fortunately for me, I was wrong…
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FeaturedDevilish Fear Be Gone!
Interestingly, our English word “devil” comes from the Greek DIABOLOS meaning that which splits, or divides, us.
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