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June 4, 2010A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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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 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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February 27, 2010Today, I stopped praying for things to get easier. It just occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary. For many...
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January 19, 2010Rather than an eye for an eye, karma can be seen as an act of love.
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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 1, 2009In an era of waning social ties, sensitivity to rejection is common. An article in Psychology Today offers solutions.
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December 1, 2009Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.
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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 9, 2009Certain needs tend to evoke emotional responses that make the situation worse in a way that aggravates the need, which...
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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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November 2, 2009Being in total darkness recently took on new meaning for me. Rock bottom is not necessarily a bad place to...
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October 26, 2009The ways of love include silence and solitude, parting and disharmony–so deep its trust in the core of light within...
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Finding the three things that heal loneliness (sensual connection, conversation, and communion) during an evening of solitude.
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October 17, 2009A poem about finding communion during loneliness.
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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 Buddhism, samsara refers to a certain way of experiencing reality that involves an endless creation of mental worlds, or...
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The struggle between loving and wanting to be loved is delicate and sometimes confusing but ultimately rife with beautiful life...