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“Faith is a small movement, slow but steady & sure, holding all our experience in a clear circle of compassionate light.” ~K. Patel It’s fair to say that most of our lives have been upended by the past 2 years of living with a pandemic. And that’s only what’s gone on collectively. There’s the personal […]
Why Self Compassion? There’s confusion about the need for self compassion. It seems it’s the place we go to as a last resort–after we’ve exhausted ourselves trying to figure out why we feel the way we do. In our habits of over analyzing everything we only deepen our confusion. It’s important to have compassion for […]
That question was put to me by my spiritual director a few months back and I’ll ask you now: Where do you take refuge? It’s easy to feel we have no respite from the upheaval all around us. And it’s easy to feel our emotional life runs amok. Yet our embodied emotional life is meant […]
In the Sufi tradition, there are many layers to the human heart, the innermost being the holiest of places where our true nature dwells, untouched by the troubles of this life. In the subtle body teachings of Tibetan Medicine, sperm meets egg at the heart chakra and new life unfolds from there. The heart is […]
“To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” ~Stephen Levine So much of my work comes down to that: Touching with love, with care, with respect, that which we have previously touched with fear. Approaching our difficulties in this way allows us to take a deep breath and relax, […]
“The clarity we need to meet the world as it is, arises out of self compassion: here is the intersection of inner and outer work.” From the point of view of depth psychology and the wisdom traditions, we each have a center point, the ground of being that is untouched, unfazed, unharmed by anything. Different […]
When I first entered the small 10′ x 10′ cabin (that’s 9.29 square meters) and began to settle in with my clothing, food, etc. panic shot through me: I’d made a mistake. I’d just spent 10 months in limited social contact and now I was entering into complete isolation? What was I thinking?! I remembered […]
As some of you know, I made time for a 3 week retreat last month: a much needed protected solitude. I’ve discovered that times of deep quiet are essential hygiene for me. Throughout the retreat this quote from Rumi played through me: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and […]
This year has brought us to our knees Whether that movement to our knees be in prayer or protest, defiance or despair, gratitude or grief, that gesture is alive. We see vividly how our body, this “chalice of the heart”, expresses without words. Body awareness is an essential part of our instinctual wisdom. Respect grief […]
“Heartbreak is a gateway to compassionate action. Such action arises when we trust our body sensations and the emotions they reveal. We can act with integrity and we do not have to second guess ourselves. It is key to know how to transform our confusion into wise action: our world depends upon it.” Our 16 […]