Sometimes life seems impossibly tender. It seems easy to forget how vulnerable I am and then suddenly there it is. A flood of sadness or fear or shame and, for a moment I forget if I know how to swim. Thrashing about is exhausting. I did that for years. As if my...
I am Donald Trump. As a self-identified “progressive” and “conscious” human being I fervently imagine and proclaim my desire for the economy and political system to become more enlightened. My Facebook friends and I all bemoan the inexorable waves of injustice and...
I am convinced that at the level of essence we are all lovable and worthy. Absolutely. 100%. We do not need to earn anything from Life. We are loved whether we figure it out or not. But you know what? Human relationship is not unconditional. That is a paradox that I...
When did we stop dancing? If I could myself and others just one instruction for living ourselves awake it would be this: breathe and move. It all comes back to these two simple sacraments. The breath and the body. If we are in relationship with these mysteries then we...
What is forgiveness? For me, the really powerful truth of forgiveness is that it is a *different way of seeing* which holds the tension between our essence and our ego. We are so conditioned to identify with our pain body that whether we are acting from love: “I...
