Mindful Traveler Gifts

People looking worried, sad and angry wait at the Emotional Baggage Carousel

The road less traveled

Parkinson Ave - Alzheimer Drive

A guru offers a fainting couch to a man.

"All I have is tofu."

"Physically I'm in New York, Emotionally. . .I'm somewhere in the south of Florida."

"I have so many summer videos on my phone, but I don’t remember being there." "Sure. Because you experienced it all through your phone."

Therapist. The first step in therapy is acknowledging your issues, or as I like to call it, "baggage claim."

'I've been working on my asceticism and self-denial for twenty years now -- could I go down to Las Vegas to test them?'

'Sorry I'm late - there was a mixup, and I got reincarnated in Naples instead of Nepal.'

Mountaintop Shopping Cart

"I hardly fly anymore. The emotional baggage fees were killing me."

'The creative process works best with a relaxed brain, so I'm letting my mind wander to let a solution drift in.'

'I guess my brain just started to really care about itself.'

"Your assumption that a one in a million chance event MUST be a miracle shows you drastically underestimate the total number of regularly occurring events."

"You left your demons here last week."

"Nature speaks to me of God’s presence, yet God is a total stranger to the restless world of men." "Why the #!@* is there no signal?!"

"Yes, sir, Dave. Out here, under the big sky, I always get back in touch with who I am."

"I feel off. I want to feel off and running."

'Don't be embarrassed ? when I first attained Nirvana, I wet my pants, too.'

'When are you going to learn to relax?'

Yoga To-Do

Roger feels that there are only two inante instincts in men and women. One is satisfaction of biological needs...the other is self-actualization.

"Chop wood, carry water, walk dog."

"Yoga helps me unwind."

'I can remember when no one had even heard of t'ai chi.'

"I'm going on a retreat."

All we have in life is this moment...

"I'm searching for a happy medium between sitting on a mountain top and eating cheese fries."

'Have you been working out?'

Grok's Thought Stopping.

"You have got to want to change."

"You must learn to let go."

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

"Have you tried turning off your conscious mind and then turning it back on again?"