malibumark

Love yourselves today and everyday! People may be looking for their perfect pic of things, in their expectations of you, especially in religious traditions, but love yourselves for putting your best...

It’s striking me that in life we all create the playpen in which we live or the prison depending how you look at it.Now that I'm thinking with this light, I'm more curious about how others manage...

I spend way too much time on my phone. Anyone else feel it?It's become a go to distraction and occupation, where I avoidsocial interaction and just having patience.

When I worked at the market, it took me a whileto get used to my boss's personality -but I knew to stay in my own lane and not let her personadictate the kind of job I would do for the store. It...

I came back to the cell with all these thoughts about what I experienced this morning at chapel. I wrote it down here below- but I was sitting here in an arm chair and feeling just SO LOW ENERGY OR...

Last night I was challenged with a number of things after my last journal. I really contorted to get along with this sister as we drove from the airport, not good. I felt a mess...

i drove to dulles airport about an hour and a half away to pick upa sister who flew in (not a flying nun?!) from San Diego.She was super serious and as we talked or I attempted conversationI thought...

my therapist said something to me yesterday that was very powerful.She said many great scholars have tried living the monastic life and have struggledwith it.In the outside world, we have a world...

you definitely have to find your own sense of beauty in lifeand not get knocked when someone's reaction is to - or seems to - the contrary - today behind the screen (iconostasis) was great - I...

I'm here at the monastery and all I want to do is to go grocery shopping or drive into DC to go to a museum or see a movie .Today is a 'no action day' and it's making me want to get back to work in...

I was telling my therapist yesterday that I realized for all the group spirit that is here, i can feel kind of drained at times, well a lot quite frankly. When I go to my room I recoiled at the idea...

Getting going with the day.Have a good one everyone!

before I send this, I am just reviewing myself to figureout my ownership of all this - self responsible -but feeling like maybe the high standard I havefor myself is causing me to feel so...