Most of us have seen the two little characters, one on each shoulder, one sort of like an angel, or voice of the “good doer”, and the other sort of a devil, or voice of the “bad doer.” And yet we hear the phrase, “it’s all good” so often these days that there must be “something in the air” that actually knows that it is all good. That something is this: the heart of hearts, the place of unconditional love, the connection with all that is, that is actually antithetical to the

We need to be close to each other: it’s part of being human. And we also need time set aside to rejuvenate. We often call that vacation. So, one thing we sometimes do on vacation is “go away.” Get a new experience, with distance away from our routines and our normal order of things. And sometimes we create an intentional daily practice of withdrawing, putting a distance between us and the rest of our world, to contemplate, meditate, commune with a source of inner strengt