Meditation Matters

William Wordsworth's poetry captures the healing powers and beauty of the natural world. It provides respite from the business of our daily lives.

Today we'll listen to his poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

The most productive thing you can do is to do nothing.

Today's podcast will focus on being still.  

Today's meditation will focus on the poetry of Wendell Berry and healing power of nature.

Today's podcast will focus on a spring cleaning of the soul.

Today's podcast features poetry from Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese-American writer and poet. Gibran is most famous for a book of poems called "The Prophet", first published in English in 1923. 

Remember poetry, like meditation, can be experienced in any way you experience it.

Often the greatest gift we can give ourselves is the gift of stillness.

Today's podcast will focus on compassionate breathing. 

George Bernard Shaw once said "We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”

Today's podcast will focus on being playful.

Today's Poetry Friday will focus on words from David Steindl-Rast. While you're listening, become aware of a growing feeling of gratitude. 

While it's true that every season contains infinite possibilities, spring seems to be nature's reminder of all that is possible. Perhaps this is because spring is when we can easily observe the life bursting forth in everything.

Today we'll share a few poems about spring. 

Bruce Lee once said "Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

Today we'll focus on becoming like water.