by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 8, 2021 | Life, Living Deliberately, Mindfulness, Presence
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase an item, I may receive a small commission. As I write this, most of us in North America are reeling from the events of the past 48 hours (and worldwide, reeling from the past year). Americans, in particular, are...
by Sarah Chauncey | Dec 30, 2020 | Acceptance, Living Deliberately, Presence
Now that a couple of vaccines have been approved and have begun to roll out, I’m seeing a lot of memes about glimpsing a light at the end of the tunnel. Many, if not most people are really, really looking forward to 2021. This has been an extremely challenging year...
by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 19, 2016 | Acceptance, Presence, Spirituality
Note: This essay was originally written in 2013-14 and appeared on EckhartTolle.com in January 2016. His site has been redesigned twice since then, and the essay page is no longer available, so I wanted to make it available here. I’ve added links to relevant...
by Sarah Chauncey | Nov 7, 2015 | Being, Creativity, Slowing Down, Spirituality
In the summer of 2013, when I was in the midst of two years of financial hardship, someone asked me: “If you could ask for one wish, and know it would come true, what would it be?” My immediate answer was “Enlightenment.” The questioner was surprised I didn’t say...
by Sarah Chauncey | May 10, 2015 | Mindfulness
If you’ve never had an intrusive thought, it’s hard to imagine. These are thoughts that appear, unbidden and undesired, and that (in my experience) are immune to the techniques I usually use to stop thinking. I guess the best way to describe it is the...
by Sarah Chauncey | Feb 28, 2015 | Living Deliberately, Mindfulness
This is a topic I’ve been percolating for a long time, and it comes from a teaching by Tara Brach in which she says, “The world is divided into people who think they’re right.” Nothing illustrates this better than our collective reaction to The...