Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 5/9/2011 8:23 AM | Add Comment Faithful April 25, 2011 I am trying to be faithful to a promise I made to myself.  One blog entry a week for the year 2011.  It didn’t seem like a big promise at the moment I decided it.  I knew it would take time. …

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/25/2011 6:29 PM | Add Comment Recovering From Ritual April 18, 2011 Malidoma Some’ is an Initiated Elder from Burkina, Faso, West Africa.  One time when he was speaking at an event I was attending he said that the people of his tribe in Africa spent most of their time doing…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/19/2011 9:17 PM | Add Comment At Least You Tried A client of mine drives a taxi part-time.  Although it is a second job and is requiring some long hours, the job is allowing him to see many sides of life in his city, and he likes this.  He recently told…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/11/2011 12:44 PM | Add Comment Why we practice I was walking briskly down the wooden handicap ramp, following the plumber who was talking about how he might lay a new sewer line, when it happened.  My left heel hit a moist, moldy spot and went skating out in front of…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/4/2011 2:51 PM | Add Comment Being Intentional: Integrity Better is the poor man who walks in his integrity than he who willfully goes in double and wrong ways, though he is rich. Proverbs 28:6 The virtue of integrity has to do with living congruently with our deepest values.  What do…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/28/2011 10:16 AM | Add Comment Being Intentional: Moderation “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 This quote surrounds the mural in the waiting room of my office.  I have always loved it because it speaks to me of the reality that…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/23/2011 7:41 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment Being Intentional: Truthfulness March 14, 2011 Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. John 8:32 Speak the truth to each other and render true and sound judgments in your courts. Zech 8:16 Linda Papov is…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/14/2011 12:45 PM | Add Comment Change #2 “We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” ~ William Somerset Maugham Isn’t this a beautiful quote?  I saw it on someone’s…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/7/2011 5:36 PM | Add Comment Truthfulness and Change March 1, 2011 Saturday’s all-day yoga retreat, Living with Intention: Virtues That Transform, was an envigorating day with a great group of people.  In the morning portion of our program, my colleague Maxine Deutschendorf (www.infiniteyogasc.com) and I focused the participants on two…

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 3/1/2011 8:43 AM | Add Comment Forgiveness #2 Many people emailed me last week and commented on how complicated the issue of forgiveness is in their lives.  I agree.  Forgiveness is a difficult and complicated thought and act. Ultimately, I believe forgiveness is also a grace.  By that I mean that…