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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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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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March 20, 2010Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
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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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February 17, 2010An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 9, 2010Encountering your worst fear, a situation that means the end of you, so it seems, sink into it. Don’t try...
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January 5, 2010What happens when the unshakeable peace is suddenly shaken? When we lose the sense that everything is okay?
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December 7, 2009Why does awakening fade? When even attempts to surrender fail to reproduce it, I realize I am not in charge.
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November 24, 2009The greatest healers in my life do not even know they are healing me, and most of the time, neither...
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November 23, 2009I woke up one morning feeling as though I’d been impaled on a spike, helpless, vulnerable, and shivering with agony. ...
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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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October 27, 2009Some relationships end with a clean break, and others end slowly, the way a garden reaches its final days. ...
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Stepping BackOctober 13, 2009 Whatever you can step back from and hold in awareness is not you, the pure awareness. In meditation, one...
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PhilosophyOctober 10, 2009 We begin with a belief in separation, and we think oneness is the illusion. One day we realize we have...
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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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Accepting who you are is like recognizing the value of a cat even if you are a dog lover.
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.