Spending hours with my husband, friends, and former students a la Juanita Brown Conversations can be energizing. It made the reality of letting go of our one and only daughter much easier. I like a statement made by Cynch Baga about Cardinal Ratzinger”s letter to artists. The former pope said something about beauty saving our world.

The statement was made even more meaningful in the context of a gathering of friends each on a different level of his or her spiritual journey.

That brought me back to Sardello’s Artistic Living as an antidote to terrorism; to Steiner”s education of the senses and return to Nature.

I personally can’t be inspired when my surroundings are in a mess. Ariel and Shya Kane’s second principle: no two things can occupy the same space at the same time is applicable.I can’t deal with disorder and at the same time have beautiful thoughts.

Tamura”s neutral state, Joe Vitale’s Zero Limits, Laura Bushnell’s and Loori’s inner silence all urge one to connect with the beauty of stillness in one’s self.