Author: Arden Pennell

  • Allowing The Mystery Back In

    Allowing The Mystery Back In

    I recently spent a week meditating with 90 other people without talking. We ate, slept, walked and sat next to each other, the whole time in silence and avoiding eye contact, like peaceful zombies. I had no information about my fellow zombies. But by the week’s end, they each had a persona in my head,…

  • Keeping New Year’s Resolutions by Allowing Time for Change

    Keeping New Year’s Resolutions by Allowing Time for Change

    As we approach 2012, the tradition of New Year’s resolutions has sprung up on the horizon. The prospect of eating healthier, being kinder to ourselves, being a better this, a better that, a fully superior being: it’s all lying in wait for us. So why is it so hard to keep and follow resolutions? Isn’t it enough…