‘Dawn begins at midnight…’ Faith is often misunderstood by the thinking mind. It isn’t a leap into the unknown necessarily, but a subtle way of seeing in the dark, an inner certainty and trust in our deepest truth. Belief and doubt are of the mind, but faith is of the heart… It is a felt …
For many of us these days, discerning the ‘truth’ among many divisive and contradictory things can be difficult. And how can I know how to recognize my own truth, the voice of my heart and intuition amid the noise of fears or conditioned opinions and habits of mind. Tenderness may be described as the Love …
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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. “ The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” …
Usually when we speak of patience, there is a sigh or a resigned tone hovering somewhere near. At least that is how it was for me for a lot of my life – patience did not come naturally. Many moons ago, a friend remarked that ‘Patience is the jewel in the crown’. At the time, …
I’ve been reflecting on ‘Self-Love’ – what that really means, and the ‘how to’ in daily practice. There are so many conflicting messages about what self-care should look like…and lots of experts ;). We, our bodies, are a process rather than a ‘thing’, dynamic and particular in needs (if you are really paying attention) and there’s …
Our wild heart knows that each moment is fresh and new; nature does not repeat herself, it is only our mind and its’ filters that habituate. Each new now-moment is met with our heart’s energetic field, our nervous system of perception that takes everything in. Within a nano-fraction of a second out brain filters and …
The Spring feels like a much needed breath of fresh air after what has seemed like a long winter…and an extended season of cave time in these Covid times. Everywhere I look is sprouting and blooming, as if to praise the blue skies, and reach for the warm sun. The child in me wants to …
The meaning of the word obedience my surprise you…etymologically, it means ‘deep listening’. This is the ‘obedience’ of true loving attention and self-care. To turn toward our own body, heart and spirit with that kind of listening may give us the guidance, medicine and comfort we need. We are sensitive beings; it is our design …
Our heart is at the center of our function in more ways than one. According to the great wisdom traditions of the West, the heart is most importantly an organ of spiritual perception whose function is to look beyond appearances to a deeper reality of meaning, insight, and clarity, and be our interface of intelligence …
Alchemy refers to a process of transformation – taking the ordinary substance of everyday life and turning it into the ‘gold’ of truth, beauty, and wholeness. This word wonderfully describes what the process of personal growth can be – the weaving and refining of all our experience into wisdom and understanding. Alchemy is using the …