More personal confessions… It’s strange to me how much I “need” to have others validate things that I do or experience, how much I can deny my own experiencing, minimizing it, not honoring the fullness of intensity that is my living or the guided action that emerges from my listening. For example, I’ve noticed lately […]
Category Archives: Quote
Courage and Willingness to Die and Be Born
Caitlin Frost doesn’t yet have her own webl, but she is filled with and shares in her daily life a tremendous amount of insight, experience, inquiry and love. This comment she left at the Living With an Open Heart thread is too powerful of a teaching, a potent expression of practice, to leave in the […]
Living With an Open Heart
I’m procrastinating. I’m scared. One more bite of toast. One more reason why I’m not comfortable at this table… one more excuse to keep me from going into what is present in me in this moment. Today I must write. Trails of life-lived and life-living are insisting to be formed into words, to be woven […]
Crossing Boundaries
“Crossing the boundary from personal to transpersonal takes will…takes the will of soul… and that’s fearful.” ~Finn Voldtofte photo source
Community
Community.Somewhere, there are peopleto whom we can speak with passionwithout having the words catch in our throats.Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us,eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with uswhenever we come into our own power.Community means strength that joins our strengthto do the work that needs to […]
Freeing Ourselves
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us restricting us to our own […]
A little About Shamans
“Shamans are describing what they have seen, what they have experienced, or what they know to be the case even if they themselves have not experienced it, much as a San Franciscan who has never been to London speaks of it as though it really exists. True shamans live in a world that is alive […]