“The light flashing out the corner of your eye; the colored orbs like clusters of grapes hanging in the trees; the pale figure leading you out of the woods; the cloud suddenly a spaceship: did you really see any of these things? Was your mind playing tricks or was your imagination running away on you? Was it a late night or too early a morning when eyes can unintentionally deceive?  A so lucid dream that you thought it real. Where do you...

“Have you ever been “at a loss for words?” The sentence itself carries an old style of speaking, doesn’t it? It’s a figure of speech: you can’t translate it word for word, but you understand it because its meaning has been explained to you or used in a context that you can appreciate. Perhaps you haven’t been able to find the words to use in a sensitive situation. At someone’s funeral for instance or during a heated conversation or while...

“Vitality denotes “physical or mental vigour, an energy where there is power to continue in existence, to live and grow.” Strength of being seems to accompany vigour for it also implies a courageous state of staying the course when circumstances are challenging. Though winds of adversity may blow, you in your life energy, persist – beyond survival to flourishing. Vigour leaps over stagnation, inertia, indifference, boredom, despair and demands...

“It flows fluidly without constraint: like a clear stream of water from a mountain top. Though there are rocks, the water curves itself naturally around any of the hard obstacles as if they were not there. No stopping, jarring, interrupting, just a steady flow of ease – sometimes so quiet, tranquil and calm that it is barely noticeable. But its absence is duly noted for from the vacuum created, a stress emerges that ease does not know. They are...

“With the overlapping of circumstances, situations, occasions, prospects, possibilities, opportunities, any kind of schedule seems to have fallen by the wayside. What is planned is in mind but when the heart, serendipity, spontaneity, and synchronicity step into your picture; frame, grid, connecting points, convergence melt away and profound presence assumes their place. Never forceful or pressing or pleading but emerging in a state of...