Category Archives: Mindfulness

Touchstone – Mental Gardening

Posted on Sat 08 15 by Lisa Sorensen

31 July 2015 You are the sky.  Everything else — it’s just the weather.  Pema Chödrön  We have big space inside us.  Countless directions and dimensions in which to navigate within our mental space. Each and every moment is an … Continue reading →

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Mental Gardening

Posted on Wed 07 15 by Lisa Sorensen

28 July 2015 We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. ~Neil deGrasse Tyson   This morning, in the middle of … Continue reading →

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Touchstone – Knowing it will end

Posted on Fri 07 15 by Lisa Sorensen

3 July 2015   It’s easy to acknowledge the singularity of each life in a theoretical way, but much harder for me to absorb this reality in a way that impacts how I live.   It’s easy to say, almost … Continue reading →

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Touchstone — Crafting Good Ordinary Days

Posted on Fri 06 15 by Lisa Sorensen

26 June 2015   The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.           ~Ralph Waldo Emerson   This has been a week of extraordinary moments embedded in ordinary ones for me.  Looking … Continue reading →

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Crafting Good Ordinary Days

Posted on Tue 06 15 by Lisa Sorensen

23 June 2015 Forever is composed of nows. ~  Emily Dickinson     ‘Ordinary’ sounds mundane, uninteresting, commonplace by definition. Waking up on an ‘ordinary’ morning, it’s easy for me to take the day for granted, to move on into … Continue reading →

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Cultivating Curiosity

Posted on Wed 06 15 by Lisa Sorensen

9 June 2015 “The important thing is not to stop questioning.   Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”   ~ Albert Einstein I have a tendency to rush right to an answer when I’m time pressured.  Too often I feel … Continue reading →

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Touchstone–Stories We Tell

Posted on Fri 05 15 by Lisa Sorensen

‘Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.’ – Leonard Cohen I love how this quote shows the power of metaphors.  We use them all the time … Continue reading →

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Oh, The Stories We Tell…

Posted on Tue 05 15 by Lisa Sorensen

I love story.  I think we’re wired for it.  Books and movies, fables and mythology, all tap into a powerful desire to learn about life through metaphor and example.  This desire probably lies at the root of our collective human … Continue reading →

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Touchstone — Enough

Posted on Thu 05 15 by Lisa Sorensen

This second post of the week is to bring a touchstone back to the first one, a link or a quote that relates to the topic and refreshes it in your mind, expands on it in your heart or brings a … Continue reading →

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