“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point …
The presence of meditation in my life has slowed down ‘the storm of neurotic thinking’ (Marianne Williamson’s amazing phrase) inside me, and is creating mindful ways in how I do my life, including sustainable ways of living. I was so impressed by travelling internationally in a way that is both soothing to the nervous system and …
I have no idea about the typical food of those who live bathed in the Provençal sun of Martigues. I visited it by chance last summer and my relationship to food changed there. We had boarded a coastal train with a day pass, and always desperate to get as much as I could, I wanted …
I will start at the end, the weeks after the second miscarriage. Weeks of waking yet another morning heavy with sadness, buffeted by another wave of tears of the sort that I had been submerged in for what seemed to go on forever, when something inside me gave in, and I was able to admit …
I have been practicing Ram Dass’ meditations a lot recently. There is a beautiful moment in his Resting in Love meditation where he asks us to contemplate: Imagine, at this moment, that you are just the way you are, and you are totally loved. Feel what that feels like. Not for how you wish you …
December 2020 This is a quick sketch of me, eyes closed, sunbathing, thinking, breathing deeply, leaning on a pillar in the cloister of Aix-en-Provence, in the south of France. It was drawn by my then boyfriend in my journal of the summer of 1987 while ‘interrailing’ around Europe. I am 20 and was sorting some …
October 2017 1. Make Time to write new lectures, to come prepared to meetings, to read around subjects, to write. To eat lunch outside your office. And to perform other acts of self-caring2. Put the ‘higher’ in Higher EducationBe kind, always. In these times of division, anger and prejudice, shine brighter than you ever thought …