Welcoming a new year is often a time we reflect on where we have been and where we are going…perhaps we even make ‘resolutions’ for the new year, promising ourselves a positive new direction. But that is somewhat different than an intention. If you look at the history of the word intention, you’ll see that …
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, …
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 …
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 …
We so often dwell in our thinking and judgments, hopes, and fears… and indeed we have been trained and conditioned in our culture to default to that. Thinking has a place, of course, but when we lead with that exclusively, we disconnect from our body and felt senses. This puts body and mind ‘at odds’, a …
Meditation can be defined in different ways, and practiced and experienced with so many techniques. The word meditation comes from the same root as ‘medicine’… what we seek out to get well. This meaning of the word points to the deep physiological benefits of ‘sitting’ and turning inward. Science has done a great job of …
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From a favorite poem by Maya Angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth And when we come to …
Here we are, suspended in the pause, the in-between, while the world around us continues to do its job…Which is to change, and ask us to… Yet, in riding the waves of vulnerability and uncertainty, I turn again and again to what is unchanging. It’s what resilience means to me…as many times as I go …