Words for Wednesday

Be at ease in your own life. Mitchell, Stephen. Tao Te Ching. HarperPerennial, 1992, p. 68. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Where can sharing lead you? __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Do you fear finality? Herbert, Frank. Dune. New York, ACE, 1965. p. 219. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Mindfulness can take many shapes. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Adolescent adventure, if only through the pages. Karr, Mary. Cherry. New York, Penguin, 2000. p. 5. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

How real is your imagination? __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Things carry more than themselves. von Morstein, Petra. “Thing Poem.” An Alle. 1969. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

How to say good-bye. Bishop, Elizabeth. “One Art.” Geography III. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976, p. 40 __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

You can try to control, but at some point, it’s time to surrender. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

How do you approach your curiosity with other people? __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Do you fly in your dreams? Atwood, Margaret. “Flying Inside Your Own Body.” Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New: 1976-1986. Houghton Mifflin, 1987, p. 65. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

A brief introduction to philosophy. “Philosophy: A brief guide for undergraduates.” American Philosopher Association. https://www.apaonline.org/page/undergraduates. Accessed Oct. 21, 2020. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Decades later, Aldo Leopold’s words still ring true, though too often ignored. Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac, And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949, pp. 96, 101. _______________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Peer into your darkness. Masters, Robert Augustus. Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark: Breaking Free from the Hidden Forces That Drive You. Sounds True, 2018. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

How do you treat your home? __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

What is your relationship to trees? Neruda, Pablo. “Lost In The Forest.” ______________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Take a deeper look into anger. Whyte, David. The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. Many Rivers Press. 2014, p. 13. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Create a space for creative mess by clearing out the mundane. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Where do your emotions come from? Barrett, Lisa Feldman. How Emotions Are Made. 2nd ed., First Mariner Books, 2017, pp. 38-39, 140-141. __________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

What is your relationship to Auras? Berry, Emily. “Aura.” Stranger, Baby. Faber & Faber, 2017. ___________________________________________________ As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Our strange relationship with the truth. Blanton, Brad. Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth. 1994. Stanley, VA, Sparrowhawk Publications, 2003. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Welcome to generosity. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Forget about the proximate cases of distractions, focus on your discomfort. Eyal, Nir (with Julie Li). “Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.” Dallas, Benbellabooks, 2019. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

When the gift of gab turns into gossip. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Who makes up your inner family? As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Why to sit in a satsang. Kempton, Sally. “Come Together: How to DIY Your Own Satsang.” Yoga Journal, Revised Oct. 9, 2017; original Aug. 27, 2007. https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/come-together-3. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

The pleasures of a pedestrian. Nicholson, Geoff. The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism. Riverhead Books, the Penguin Group, 2008. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Old texts can hold new ideas. The Upanishads: Breath of Eternal Life. Translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester. 1948. New American Library, a division of Penguin Group, 1957, p. 94. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

It’s okay to be confused. Saunders, George. The Braindead Microphone. Riverhead Books, the Penguin Group, 2007. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Meaningful questions produce meaningful answers. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Don’t forget to pack a note! As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Nature deserves praise. Harjo, Joy. “Praise the Rain.” Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, 2015. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

There are different ways to shift perspective. Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. The Random House Publishing Group, 1994. As a minimalist lifestyle coach and professional organizer, I'd love to help you build a more mindful and peaceful lifestyle. Please visit me at whylessequalsmore.com to access free resources and learn more about my services.

Thank you for 100 episodes!

Meditation, of the floral variety. Oliver, Mary. “Moccasin Flowers.” The Atlantic. June 1987. p.64.

If you’ve forgotten, it’s time to get excited about magic. Forrest, Mabel. “Boy-Dreams.” Alpha Centauri. 1909.

Space is relative.

Turning the tables on our inner editor. Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones. Boston, Shambhala, 1986, 2005, p. 28.

We can all use a hug sometimes, from ourselves.

Old fashioned excitement for a musician’s new release.

Right and left, or east and west. Lent, Jeremy. The Patterning Instinct. New York, Prometheus Books, 2017, p. 197.

Do you hold a hidden creative calling deep within you? Jarvis, Chase. Creative Calling. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2019, pp. 23-24.

What if we could confront fear first? Truman Cooper, Marsha. “Fearing Paris.” Substantial Holdings, Pudding House Publications Chapbook Series, 2002, p. 22.

Take time to praise special places. Tony Hoagland. Barton Springs. Poetry, Vol. 190, No. 4, July/August, 2007.

We have the choice to make good from the seemingly destructive. Chodron, Pema. “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living.” Boston: Shambhala,, 2004. p. 36-37 & 42-43.

Smell, mindfully. Abbey, Edward. “Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness.” New York: Ballantine Books, 1968.

Insight meditation teaches us how to truly see. Paramananda, “A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation.” New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. p.145-146.

Being truthful is more than simply not telling blatant lies. Adele, Deborah. The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice. Duluth: On-Word Bound Books, LLC, 2009. p. 49-50.

Change is certain so seize the day. Frost, Robert. “Nothing Gold Can Stay.” New Hampshire. Henry Holt, 1923."

Focus your life around what is most meaningful. Susanka, Sarah. The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters. New York: Random House Trade Partners, 2007. p.xiii.