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Barbara Dametto
Oct 10, 20241 min read
Beauty From Darkness
Today on my walk in the forest, I found the remanence of a morning dove. There were feathers, entrails and lots of ants. As I carefully...
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Barbara Dametto
May 16, 20243 min read
Transmuting Fear Into Love
When we experience deep pain in life, there is always an opportunity for growth. When life inevitably presents us with some kind of...
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Barbara Dametto
Sep 22, 20222 min read
Slowing Down Versus Rushing In Life
Life unfolds as it will, and the universe will wait patiently as we make our way into the unknown. Our lives are guided by natural...
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Barbara Dametto
Sep 22, 20222 min read
Take Time to Tune into the Healing Sounds of the Universe
As we seek soothing and harmonizing sounds to surround us, we perform an act of energetic self-healing. Everything in the universe is in...
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Barbara Dametto
Sep 18, 20214 min read
Creating a New World
The world in which we live is a mirror of our strongest beliefs. If we want to change our experience of the world, it is imperative that...
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Barbara Dametto
Jul 24, 20212 min read
Dance the World into the Fire of Transformation
Let us look at each person who shames, shuns, and harms us as a gift, as they bring us closer to our own personal truth. As painful as it...
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Barbara Dametto
May 22, 20212 min read
The Gem Beneath the Stone
Divine intelligence presents itself in mysterious ways. There is always duality- such is the nature of existence itself. There is always...
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Barbara Dametto
Apr 22, 20214 min read
What is Enlightenment?
"Enlightenment has nothing to do with the head or the heart. Enlightenment is actually waking up from the head and the heart. It's waking...
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By Barbara Dametto
Jan 18, 20213 min read
Make Me A Channel Of Peace
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Saint Francis was an Italian...
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Barbara Dametto
Jan 10, 20213 min read
Getting Grounded
There are times in life where we feel the need to get grounded. What does that mean? Getting grounded means utilizing some of our skills...
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Barbara Dametto
Nov 29, 20204 min read
Metta Meditation
Metta Bhavana is a Buddhist meditation practice known as the development of universal loving-kindness. It belongs to a set of meditations...
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Barbara Dametto
Sep 14, 20202 min read
Taking Time Each Day to be Quiet
Quiet time each day is so important, but many are so out of practice that it's almost unnerving to be in stillness.
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Barbara Dametto
Jul 20, 20202 min read
Are You Excited or Scared?
Sometimes the feelings of being scared and excited can elicit the same physical response in our bodies. When new challenges and...
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Barbara Dametto
Sep 9, 20194 min read
The Guru is Within You
There is a belief within spiritual teachings that one should always have a guru. The word "guru" means teacher of certain knowledge and...
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Barbara Dametto
Jan 7, 20192 min read
Why Meditation is an Act of Self Love
I recently returned from a meditation retreat at Hockley Valley at the Ecology Retreat Centre, Ontario. During this weekend of intense...
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By Barbara Dametto
Jun 28, 20182 min read
Waves on the Shore
Life is a marriage of beginnings and endings that flow together like the tides of an ocean. For every wave that is received by the shore,...
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Barbara Dametto
Apr 30, 20183 min read
Coming Home
Buddhist meditation has been described as stopping, calming and looking deep. You can not practice deep looking until you stop- stop...
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By Barbara Dametto
Apr 8, 20182 min read
Loving the Divide
All too often our lives are overburdened with responsibilities, worries, physical and emotional challenges and general dis-ease. We feel...
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