From a comment to Spiritual Experience vs. Realization (or What’s The Point, Anyway?), over at MommyMystic.com:
If part of what you are saying here is that the main plus of formal spiritual practice is that eventually you give up on it, and then are truly able to surrender, then I have to say, YES, it does [...]
November 30, 2008 – 11:26 pm
Francine, over at talkaboutdiets.net penned a great one, The Healthy Diet Manifesto. Check it out.
Starts of with a gem:
1. Everyone is on a diet. Healthy dieters choose a diet that will bring them closer to their life goals.
Diet is a not dirty word. You are on a diet every day, and making it a healthy [...]
April 16, 2008 – 10:19 pm
My Mother died this Monday, April 14th at 2pm. My brother, wife, and I were with here and witnessed her last moments. Her heart beat its last while I was holding her hand.
This comes at the end of eight years of congestive heart failure. Her first collapse was due to water retention, [...]
December 20, 2007 – 1:10 pm
Over at ZenHabits, there’s a great set of fitness tips – 14 Stress-Free Ways to Kick Weight Loss in the Butt.
A habit I have been working on personally speaks to three of Leo’s points:
3. Become aware of your hunger. This is one of the key things I’ve been learning. Many times we are not conscious [...]
The best results in my life, for achieving worth while goals, have all come from making something a daily practice. When I first woke up to the fact that I had made myself morbidly obese, I weighed 396 pounds at the age of 21, the thing that saved me was committing to a daily [...]