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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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August 13, 2010I found a book in an old box that made me realize what the last three years of my life...
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June 25, 2010Your body carries a record of your past experiences, some deep and old and intense, but the past no longer...
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June 19, 2010Look up. Set aside the empty box and the packing tape. The sky is a a rich gleaming yellow with...
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June 17, 2010In Tibet, they believe that it is possible to foresee, at the beginning of a relationship, how it will...
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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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June 4, 2010 A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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June 3, 2010Most romance movies seem so shallow. Maybe my immersion in Buddhism has shifted my perspective. Whatever it is, when...
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June 1, 2010Moments of luminous awareness, or awakening, are often described as an opening beyond oneself that encompasses everything just as it...
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May 30, 2010Mental imagery of the social landscape is just mental imagery. What do you have and hold when you love?
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May 28, 2010Pointing to the moon is tricky when its light is found within, but don’t let that stop you.
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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 24, 2010What power do we really have to manifest what we want?
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May 23, 2010An otherwordly contentment filled my day today. Something that should have caused me sadness brought me peace and tenderness instead. ...
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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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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 17, 2010Amid memories of disappointing a former love, a prayer for a more beautiful face is answered in minutes.
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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, 2010 A short story about the perpetuation of friendship in the face of grief and impermanence.
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May 4, 2010The notion of psychic boundaries reminds me of the boy who lived his life in a bubble. Protection is lovely,...
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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, 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 28, 2010If you ask for healing, watch your thoughts. Sometimes the divine speaks with our own inner voice.
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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 19, 2010Forgiveness and redemption are healing, but you can still find wholeness even when others cannot offer it.
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April 17, 2010 Friday night I felt love pouring out of me for someone I once knew. Love transcends the past.
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April 13, 2010The divine is always accessible. We don’t need to become perfect first in order to enter.
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April 11, 2010 Apathy 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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April 2, 2010Archetypal wisdom on how women’s “falling apart” can open the doors to awakening.
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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 28, 2010 Beautiful quotes from a fellow traveler.
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March 23, 2010 Today I felt my Beloved in the soil under my feet and in the bark on the trees.
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March 20, 2010 Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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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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March 7, 2010 Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it?
A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character on...
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March 5, 2010 Periods of strain can erode your strength and test your faith in life, but there are ways to approach them...
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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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March 1, 2010Sunday morning I woke up contemplating the process of grief. Thoughts of former loves constantly fill my mind. When I...
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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...