Western culture has internalized enough psychological language and insight as to give even the most uninterested person a casual understanding of concepts like the unconscious,…
Softening
Take a breath and imagine yourself becoming soft. Imagine the hard shell of resentment starting to ease and bend. Imagine the ice of rejection melting…
Starting Fresh Takes Its Own Courage
I missed my weekly posting last week, and nearly allowed myself to miss this week’s. I am in a major transition between one phase of…
Sense of Life
What is your sense of the life that you long to live? Is there within you some image, some feeling, some idea, some sensation that…
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“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” – Michel de Montaigne This quote is on the wall of a room at…
Catastrophe
A crisis is a moment of opening, loosening, cracking apart. Lightning strikes and breaks open something that was supposed to be precious, sealed, preserved for…
Change
Every goodbye is a hello. Each exhalation makes space for the next inhalation. The river moves, currents pulling forward, each molecule of water greeting the…
Heru-em-Anpu
Disappointed heart, mourning eye rectified by obstinate will. Avenger, dissenter, fierce youth, scalding passion, aggrieved: make intention whole with the dark, enfold depth with lunar…
Meditation on Division and Wholeness
Today I can stretch to include more of myself. I notice the urge to choose between and cut away, dismiss, or marginalize something. A part…
The Mask
Sometimes we become trapped by the person we are trying to be, and deny the suffering beneath. This outer mask of personality is uniquely shaped…