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August 31, 2010Analyzing the data for my dissertation is highlighting for me the limits of intellectual knowing. Welcome to the Zen of...
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July 27, 2010The water’s fine! The expanded self, or luminosity–entering it is like learning to dive into a river. Over time and...
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June 25, 2010 Your body carries a record of your past experiences, some deep and old and intense, but the past no longer...
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June 6, 2010You cannot ask the universe for something if you cannot conceive of it. In November of last year,...
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May 26, 2010The deepest healing occurs when we open to the possibility that our perspective can change.
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May 22, 2010A chance to be burdened makes it possible to see the immense love that surrounds those who suffer.
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April 30, 2010Is your heart heavy today? I could feel its weight just as the clouds began to fill the sky. A...
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April 28, 2010If you ask for healing, watch your thoughts. Sometimes the divine speaks with our own inner voice.
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April 11, 2010Apathy often has its roots in the odd, unexpected body memory of prior pain that is evoked by new love.
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April 7, 2010How to identify healthy forms of emotional support and healers that are empowering rather than disempowering.
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March 29, 2010On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
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March 3, 2010When we experience pain, we create a pain self. This pain self is connected to a subset of our usual...
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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 16, 2010In this frozen moment, your warm consciousness finds all existence waiting.
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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 5, 2010Last night, I was awake all night, while sleeping, enjoying another one of those full nights resting in clear, lucid,...
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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, 2010 Finishing 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 31, 2010I’m learning to ground myself in something deeper. I’ve been reading more of Jan’s book (When Fear Falls Away, by...
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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 29, 2010We are enveloped in intricate patterns of perfect healing. In every moment, from every direction, we’re given exactly what we...
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January 14, 2010I am being reassembled. The process is unmistakeable. It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
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January 7, 2010Who do we turn to in times of need? Reflections on loss return me, somehow, to a state of bliss.
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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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December 24, 2009Can one respond to suffering the way a cat responds to falling off a roof? While meditating one night recently,...
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December 23, 2009Can we use drugs to numb our emotional pain without losing our souls?
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December 22, 2009The function of compassion for those who feel cut off is to return them to the whole. This is not...
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December 17, 2009Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
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December 13, 2009Mystics and philosophers often describe life as an amusement park ride, exciting at times or downright scary but without real...
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December 9, 2009A poem by Hafiz gives me hope that life can still flourish after disaster.
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December 6, 2009A conversation in a cafe makes me question the belief that severe depression means love and affection are off limits.
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December 4, 2009 An essay by Noel McNaughton on how seemingly difficult people enable us to cultivate true compassion.
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December 2, 2009An adventure in facing worst fears. This particular monster? Psychiatry. I enter with stigma and exit with side effects.
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November 25, 2009I have watched the movie You’ve Got Mail every week for two months. One might think I find it appealing...
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November 24, 2009The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
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November 6, 2009I want to contact that which is real in others, but the meeting of minds never lasts. The souls who...
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October 30, 2009When weeks of grief and turmoil are broken by a neutral calm, the relief is welcome, but the journey is...
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A meditation designed to cultivate compassion that is free from selfish motivations. Especially useful for having compassion for those who...
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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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October 26, 2009Why it feels so impossible to have compassion for those who cause injury or evoke repulsion and how to reconcile...