Tiny Wisdom: Keeping Your Heart Open
“A person’s world is only as big as their heart.” -Tanya A. Moore
Last week, I wrote about John Robbins, who presented at Bonfire Heights. He and his son Ocean shared a number of stores about loving fully …
Posts by Lori Deschene
Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha. She’s also the author of Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal, Tiny Buddha's Worry Journal, and Tiny Buddha's Inner Strength Journal and co-founder of Recreate Your Life Story, an online course that helps you let go of the past and live a life you love. For daily wisdom, join the Tiny Buddha list here. You can also follow Tiny Buddha on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Tiny Wisdom: The Benefits of Slow Progress
“It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.” ~Proverb
Sometimes it can be challenging to operate with complete integrity in business—particularly because bigger and faster …
Tiny Wisdom: Stop Thinking and Get Moving
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it” -David Starr Jordan
Have you ever felt so frustrated with your inability to do something that you committed to doing nothing …
Giveaway and Interview: Uncertainty by Jonathan Fields
Editor’s Note: The winners for this giveaway have already been chosen. They are:
Several years ago, when I lived in New York City, I developed a love for yoga that started in a studio previously owned …
Tiny Wisdom: Choose to Be a Hero
“A hero is a man who does what he can.” -Romain Rolland
Two weeks ago, a group of brave bystanders in Utah banded together to lift a burning car and save a man trapped beneath it.
In 2009, a passenger …
Tiny Wisdom: Less Pain, More Love
“The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in.” -Morrie Schwartz
There are some people we feel we’ll never understand. They make choices we’d never make, they don’t understand why …
Tiny Wisdom: The Power of Flexibility
“Stay committed in your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” ~Tom Robbins
This is the post that almost wasn’t—and it’s chock full of irony.
This weekend I spoke at the first annual Bonfire Heights retreat.
The founder, Darius, promoted …
Tiny Wisdom: Stillness in a World that Moves Quickly
“Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” -Hermann Hesse
Before I started this site, I had a different blog where I frequently posted uplifting videos. I quickly …
Tiny Wisdom: When You Fear Making Mistakes
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard
The other day I read that most of our fears can be boiled down to a fear of inadequacy, and, consequently, …
Book Giveaway and Interview: One Minute Mindfulness
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As you can likely tell from the number of author interviews/giveaways I’ve posted during these …
Tiny Wisdom: The Time is Now
“To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.” -Donald Altman
We can find reasons to smile, if we look for the good in the now.
We can silence the thoughts …
Tiny Wisdom: Stressing and Pushing for Success
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Albert Schweitzer
Last week, I was part of the studio audience for a taping of the …
Tiny Wisdom: Not Taking the Easy Road
“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it’s easy.” -Unknown
I need to constantly remind myself to not do what’s easiest.
As I’ve mentioned before, I work from home. …
Tiny Wisdom: You Need to Forgive Yourself
“Love yourself—accept yourself—forgive yourself—and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.” -Leo F. Buscaglia
There’s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting where a therapist named Sean …
Tiny Wisdom: We Want to Fly
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” -Helen Keller
The other day my boyfriend and I went to Disneyland, as we often do, since we’re annual pass holders.
Though my younger self would be …
Giveaway and Interview: Spirit Junkie by Gabrielle Bernstein
Update: The winners have already been chosen for this giveaway. They are:
Have you ever met someone, and then instantly felt a sense of rapport and respect? That’s how I felt earlier this year …
Tiny Wisdom: The Joy of Non-Events
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!” -Amanda Bradley
In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll coined the term “un-birthday,” which means exactly what you might expect—a day you …
Tiny Wisdom: Living in the Now and Planning for Later
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it but to enable it.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It’s a common misconception that being fully present means not setting goals. After all, if you’re truly connected to the now, you’re …
Tiny Wisdom: Let Yourself Be As You Are
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.” ~Buddha
“My brain has been moving slowly all …
Giveaway and Review: the 2-Year Anniversary of Tinybuddha.com!
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It seems like just yesterday I wrote, “It’s a pretty exciting week in Tiny Buddha world,” before crafting a massive year-in-review post for …
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