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Last month, I led my fourth retreat at Blue Spirit in Costa Rica. While there, one of the retreat participants told us that the energy of the ocean is power. Whenever I look out at the sheer size of the ocean, I am reminded that anything is possible. I have great respect for the ocean. There's a whole other world down there (some of which we may never fully understand). There's so much life, and different ways of communicating among marine life, that has always fascinated

In a guided meditation over the weekend, the instructor asked us to bring to mind something or somewhere that makes us happy. At the time, I thought about my dog, Mala, who has a lust for life unlike any other being I’ve ever met. Later in the day, I was still thinking about the meditation, and about a place that I’ve returned to every year for the past six years – Costa Rica. With all of the places that I want to visit in the world, it’s unusual for me to return to one place