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March 26, 2011What does it mean to be the vast, singular awareness while simultaneously living in a physical body? In innumerable physical...
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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 15, 2011Last Saturday, in meditation, I merged with the heavy guilt seizing my body. Moving through the outer layers, I touched...
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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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January 7, 2011When my path became most tumultuous, I had the most comically bizarre dream of my life.
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January 3, 2011My year ended with the strange task of breaking up with someone I was not in a relationship with. I...
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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 24, 2010After looking very bleak just a week ago, things are quickly falling into place. I’ve been through this before numerous...
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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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November 15, 2010We sat on the shore of the river looking down at a wide bank covered with slabs of rock. The...
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October 20, 2010 I’ve been feeling an inexplicable yet palpable, edgy grief filled with gnarling anguish, waves of tenderness, and hints of nostalgia,...
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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 unfold,...
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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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June 4, 2010 A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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June 3, 2010 Most romance movies seem so shallow. Maybe my immersion in Buddhism has shifted my perspective. Whatever it is, when I...
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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 10, 2010A recurrent dreams foretells a shift. As the feminine regains wholeness, the masculine faces storms ahead.
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.