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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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June 4, 2010A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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June 2, 2010Watching unpleasant emotions quickly turn into raw energy, the key seems to be seeing through concepts.
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May 20, 2010The magic of this reality, synchronicities and signs and answered prayers, is good medicine for a time, but after awhile,...
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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 28, 2010Yesterday, I was sitting on a bench out on a boardwalk suspended over a cattail marsh. I felt so absolutely...
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April 19, 2010Forgiveness and redemption are healing, but you can still find wholeness even when others cannot offer it.
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March 20, 2010Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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February 7, 2010Take a breath. Feel the air enter your body. Embrace every sensation, thought, and emotion coursing through you in this...
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January 16, 2010 For nearly a year, twice every month, I attended an event in town known as the Barefoot Boogie. Set in...
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December 30, 2009 Once upon a time…
I paused. That was all I had so far. My son asked for a bedtime story, but...
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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 2, 2009 An adventure in facing worst fears. This particular monster? Psychiatry. I enter with stigma and exit with side effects.
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October 29, 2009In his book, I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter proposes that the essence or soul of a person can...
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True ListeningOctober 26, 2009 A meditation for when you feel lonely or alienated from someone you care about, and you can’t talk to them....
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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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Americans report fewer close friends and confidants than they did years ago. For most people, their only close confidant is...