Mindful Mornings Miami

16/11/2025

When we forgive, we stop rigidly identifying others by their undesirable behavior. Without denying anything, we open our heart and mind wide enough to see the deeper truth of who they are. We see their goodness. When we do, our hearts naturally open in love.

20/10/2025

Every day I’m inspired by people I know and strangers I meet. Sometimes all it takes is a smile or a simple gesture. Other times I feel inspired by a story of love, family, or community. What will be the story of the time we’re living in now, I wonder? Will it be the rise of AI at the expense of our humanity? Or will it be the rise of our humanity in the age of AI? I see glimpses of the latter everywhere I look: a story of how we almost lost our humanity, but then found our way back to one another and back home to ourselves.

17/10/2025

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve you love and affection.

01/10/2025

Letting go of our stories and resting in the here and now is a direct path to freedom. Being in the reality of the present allows us to reclaim our life from a place of love and spaciousness which can hold it all. 🤍

No matter how painful or beautiful, exalted or difficult, each thought, feeling, or experience arises and passes in this dance of form. What we can do is learn to rest in pure loving awareness beyond these ever-present cycles. This space is our true home. Reside here. ☯️

21/08/2025

The gate of Heaven is everywhere. (Thomas Merton.)

What we seek is what we are
(Kabir)

One just never knows who may appear in the morning at Patch!

Alas this day dawned with the visiting monks from Temple here in Homestead, their saffron robes, sandal-clad feet, serene presences graced our land.

They were in awe of the way we have created “the dharma as a garden” with deep homage to the Buddhist wisdom tradition and the many ways this way of practice is rooted to the trees, finding awakening by sitting beneath the Bodhi Tree.

They sang blessings upon Patch beneath the Peace Tree, noting our Tibetan Peace Plaque gifted to us by back in March.

And we laughed!

Language can create such funny moments when understanding the words is challenging, but the bright eyes and kind-heartedness of Presence breaks through.

May all beings be free from suffering.
May all beings experience ease in the mind, body & spirit.
May healthfulness and lovingkindness be our way with one another.
May Peace be present amongst us all.

Should you seek to touch, taste, walk, sit and experience some of the truly sacred magic of our space, we have a Wellness Workshop this Sunday, the focus on Mindful Metamorphosis; learn how to stand in the face of challenge and choose to transform yourself, we can help you find your wings, LINK IN BIO.

18/07/2025

Truth

Most of the destruction that modern society has caused in the world, ecological destruction, or modern or aided warfare and so forth, is the result of the mind being disconnected from the heart and the body.

So when we tune back into what really matters—our breath, our compassion, our role in collaborating with the world around us—we start to sense that who we are is not just limited by the news and events of the world, but that we’re connected to something vast, mysterious, and beautiful.

30/05/2025