The wonderful poem by Mary Oliver called “The Journey” beautifully describes the inner intelligence that guides and leads our lives. “One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began,” reads the first line. And what we have to do often feels incongruent with what is around us – there might be all …
The power I’m speaking of is Nature, or Creation. It is the intelligence that miraculously breathes us, propels one thought after another to arise within , and keeps time, like a thread, unwinding from the reel of genesis. This is the power you possess! You are Creation! Yet, if you have a belief like “I …
At the heart of who you are is an abundant fountain of life. Although you might claim certain identities, such as “I am a doctor” or “a teacher” or “a woman”, you are at the core of your being – Source. Streaming forward from this place within – this great Void, this holy place– is …
The artist, the one who listens to the creative process as it unfolds from within, the one who deepens intuituion by following the inner creative thread, the one who shines the bright light of attention inward, can be a healer of the planet. The artist heals herself and others by stepping into the unknown, facing …
You’re finally getting it. You are realizing what a remarkable, amazing and sacred creature you are. You are making the shift from self-hatred to self-love, from self-condemnation to self-appreciation, from feeling separate and isolated to feeling wise, deeply connected, and whole. You know that you are a wisdom-keeper, a master, a sage. If you’d like …
By watching or observing experience, you become what you already are – the nothingness out of which all experience is born. You return to your innate wholeness. Suffering comes when the little self pushes experiences away. To return to wholeness… Connect with the Peace within you. Study and observe the Pain. Probe into when, where, …
No one likes pain. For many people, emotional and/or physical pain can burden and depress a life that offers many moments to be grateful for, so much material abundance to appreciate, and so many relationships in which to find and express love. Yet, there is a reason why Paul Brand, a long-time researcher of leprosy, …
Though you wouldn’t think so at first, creativity can lead you to the darkness within. When I say darkness I don’t just mean that dark source of intelligence where all things emerge, where the moon becomes the muse, where artists and dreamers go to find generative threads of their creation. I don’t just mean the …
You have a particular perspective of the world. From this perspective, you experience and view life in a unique way. Your viewpoint is so unique; it has been created by every single one of your experiences – painful and pleasurable, remembered and forgotten, fully or partially lived through. If you’re like most people, that perspective …