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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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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 4, 2010A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
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April 11, 2010Apathy 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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February 17, 2010An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
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February 16, 2010In this frozen moment, your warm consciousness finds all existence waiting.
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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 24, 2010What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
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January 14, 2010I am being reassembled. The process is unmistakeable. It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
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December 23, 2009Can we use drugs to numb our emotional pain without losing our souls?
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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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In an era of waning social ties, sensitivity to rejection is common. An article in Psychology Today offers solutions.
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December 1, 2009Reaching out for help can inadvertently foster the collective perception that we are all struggling to save ourselves.
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November 25, 2009I have watched the movie You’ve Got Mail every week for two months. One might think I find it appealing...
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November 6, 2009I want to contact that which is real in others, but the meeting of minds never lasts. The souls who...
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Regular stories and reflections from my journey through this communal reality as I follow the path of the waking heart....
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November 2, 2009Being in total darkness recently took on new meaning for me. Rock bottom is not necessarily a bad place to...
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October 29, 2009 In his book, I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter proposes that the essence or soul of a person can...
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A meditation designed to cultivate compassion that is free from selfish motivations. Especially useful for having compassion for those who...
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October 26, 2009Why it feels so impossible to have compassion for those who cause injury or evoke repulsion and how to reconcile...
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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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Keep your heart open when you want to close it, and you will find that the heart needs no shielding.
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.