by Bela Johnson | Mar 27, 2012 | happiness, healing, personal, philosophy, random thoughts, Uncategorized
It’s almost unbelievable, the degree to which I become my own undoer. Life has brought me more magic than many, yet these days all seems static as a windless day. Perhaps it is the times we are living in or maybe it’s my own personal evolution. Either way,...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 22, 2012 | compassion, happiness, healing, inspiration, philosophy, Uncategorized
I have got to wrap my mind around this thing called happiness. The Tibetans say that every human being wants first to be happy. I find this oddly strange. For doesn’t that desire arise simply in comparison to the option of suffering? It’s not that I don’t feel...
by Bela Johnson | Mar 6, 2012 | culture, Hawaii, healing, inspiration, nature, Uncategorized
And so it begins. Shafts of light steal through dawn’s dark mantle, pierced first and only by birdsong. Slate grey skies erupt overhead onto a landscape perpetually in need of their offering. Through stillness, the distant drone of a two-lane highway portends the...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 31, 2012 | Hawaii, healing, nature, philosophy, psychology, Uncategorized
A former client once quipped that expectations are like premeditated resentments. I can’t help but notice what a recurring theme this is in my own life. When I was young and living in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, the biggest treat for me was when...
by Bela Johnson | Jan 12, 2012 | compassion, healing, philosophy, spirituality, Uncategorized
Typically I eschew today’s news. As far as I’m concerned, good journalism died a long time ago, and the opinionated drivel that clogs the arteries of society is not worth my time and attention. We do however subscribe to a daily paper, just in case there is something...
by Bela Johnson | Dec 26, 2011 | compassion, culture, Hawaii, healing, inspiration, Uncategorized
Huli the bowl! and set myself free – by releasing these stones I can choose to be me. I committed this little ditty to paper shortly after returning home from a Solstice ceremony led by a man of mixed Hawaiian descent. In the interceding years since that event,...
