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February 21, 2011During the last few weeks, my life seemed impossible. I was grumpy and sour. If life is equal to capacity...
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January 7, 2011“Oh, holy smokes!” I interrupted Mary in the middle of our conversation. After more than a month, we had finally...
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December 11, 2010Opening out into something beautiful, the crystal clear, blue-green sea–I keep dreaming of it, and now those dreams are coming...
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November 17, 2010My karma unfolded quickly. In a recent post, I related memories of a past love that came up in a...
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June 6, 2010You cannot ask the universe for something if you cannot conceive of it. In November of last year, I went...
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May 9, 2010When you see the beauty in someone, how can you tell them about it? How can you show them...
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May 7, 2010A short story about the perpetuation of friendship in the face of grief and impermanence.
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April 27, 2010Moments of unconditional opening that arise in romantic love offer a taste of the tantric approach to all of life.
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April 10, 2010A recurrent dreams foretells a shift. As the feminine regains wholeness, the masculine faces storms ahead.
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March 19, 2010Ripples from a monumental act of love now fill my world. In the presence of profound kindness, every molecule of...
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February 23, 2010Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
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February 21, 2010We are never cut off from love. I say farewell to a former love and find that exclusion feels good.
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February 17, 2010An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 11, 2010What would you do if your lifelong search for wholeness finally reached the finish line? If the problems you devoted...
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February 3, 2010There comes a time when the dark forces in your life step into the light, remove their masks, and reveal...
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February 2, 2010Finishing Jan’s book. And waking up more fully, more deeply. Dawn taking root. The holy fallout which I read about...
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January 30, 2010When peace and tranquility, bliss even, begins to fill most every moment, healing feels complete. These past few weeks, I’ve...
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January 24, 2010What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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January 19, 2010 Rather than an eye for an eye, karma can be seen as an act of love.
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January 10, 2010One of the most potent forces that can close the heart is another’s apathy. We invoke apathy in response to...
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January 4, 2010How do we continue to love those from whom we are estranged? Should we remain open to those who move...
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November 14, 2009 There are times when we truly need far more than others can give. People help with the tools they have...
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October 29, 2009 In his book, I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter proposes that the essence or soul of a person can...
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October 26, 2009It helps to know precisely what you believe in and to hold these truths in your heart when others fail...
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You may have won many battles with depression. Why can’t you win the war? A new way to...
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Mother Teresa said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty of all.” When I think...
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In times of great suffering, we look for teachers or healers who can show us the way out. The need...
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Dry SpellsSeptember 10, 2009 Nearly all the water was gone from the creek. The large stones and pebbles in the creek bed, the skeletal...
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Two hands lift silt from the bottom of the shallow river and rise to the surface. The sun shines into...
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We’re moved by extremes to call forth great love and openness, but the small and ordinary things require our hearts...
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Concepts for romantic love are rife with imagery, both visual and visceral, for the coming together and moving apart of...
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Today, I focus on being in the moment through listening. Listening as if everything around me was about to share...
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Sometimes, when I’m feeling sad or worried, I look around me and sense a presence, a greater mind outside of...
Written by an embodiment psychologist, Zen Buddhist, and single mother, "Waking Heart" is a diary of synchronicities, lessons both learned and forgotten, accidental awakenings, and the cultivation of love.