February 3, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
A place that is still Below the threshing beat of stress is a place that is still. Last night, in the dark hours, awake and perturbed, I sunk below the frenzy of a million thoughts and a myriad of emotions, and found that still place. It was an oasis. The day had been...
February 3, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings
What captures your devotion? Where in your life do you commit to the sacred in you? How do you express devotion to your work, your relationships? Or perhaps, where might devotion become a pillar of your existence, giving your life and identity a shape that is...
February 2, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Cultivation of gratitude How do we bow our heads in gratitude when our world feels broken? Is there a place, in the depths of our fear and pain, to stand in gratitude for it all, exactly as it is? To do this we must step back from what is and become the observer of...
February 1, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
We are part of the whole As I gaze at a very stormy wild sea on this February morning I am again reminded by nature that her violence is as beautiful as her calm. The ocean is responding to the effects of the full moon overnight, and a confluence of events in our...
January 31, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Into our dark places Falling down Into the arms of a field of soft green grass. Falling up Into the sky of downy clouds. Falling hard Slipping and falling into our dark places, the dangerous alleys of our psyche where we are wounded and broken, where the effluence of...