The Mind is an ally – really?
July 17, 2013 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Featured Posts, Observe
On the long flight from Toronto to Trinidad, en route to Guyana, I read “The Mind is an Ally” by Sakyong Mipham, in preparation for my “Meditation and Writing” summer intensive this week. So many insights about mindfulness by this brilliant and generous man. I completed it with renewed resolve to meditate every day, no […]
Free and laughing travel – without leaving home!
August 30, 2010 by Marguerite Orane
Filed under Be Present, Featured Posts, Free and Laughing
I came across an interview with author Mary Pipher. Here’s what she shared about books: ”If you live 70 years and aren’t a reader, you will know maybe 3,000 people over your lifetime. But if you read books, you’ll go all over the world and know all these wonderful people you could never have met […]