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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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December 1, 2009In 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.
Tales...
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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, 2009In 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.