rejection Archive

  • From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
  • Awake and Alive

    Awake and Alive

    Moments of luminous awareness, or awakening, are often described as an opening beyond oneself that encompasses everything just as it...
  • Romantic Love and the Practice of Opening

    Romantic Love and the Practice of Opening

    Moments of unconditional opening that arise in romantic love offer a taste of the tantric approach to all of life.
  • Why the Heart Closes

    Why the Heart Closes

    Apathy often has its roots in the odd, unexpected body memory of prior pain that is evoked by new love.
  • The Perfection of Being Human

    The Perfection of Being Human

    On the paradox of finding wholeness and redemption in the fact that we make mistakes.
  • Blissful Just As Things Are

    Blissful Just As Things Are

    Today, I stopped praying for things to get easier.  It just occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary.  For many...
  • Crazy Wisdom: Lessons from the Altar Ego

    Crazy Wisdom: Lessons from the Altar Ego

    An encounter with Buddhist fundamentalism reminds me to look for the hidden teaching in every moment.
  • A Boogie with Sole

    A Boogie with Sole

    For nearly a year, twice every month, I attended an event in town known as the Barefoot Boogie.  Set in...
  • Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Cut Off: The Role of Compassion in Social Death

    Among the most excruciating suffering one can endure is social death. Where does compassion fit in?
  • Transforming Rejection Sensitivity

    Transforming Rejection Sensitivity

    In an era of waning social ties, sensitivity to rejection is common. An article in Psychology Today offers solutions.
  • Breathing Under Water

    Breathing Under Water

    Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.