A couple of inspiring posts in my feeds today: “Change is not easy. It requires drive and commitment. It requires an unshakeable determination to overcome any obstacle.” These truthful words of inspiration come from Scott Rigsby. Last week he was the first double amputee to complete an Ironman Triathlon. That means he swam 2.4 miles […]
Category Archives: practice
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 […]
Shadows and Swords
SynchronicitiesAlignmentClarityUncertaintyBeing withExperiencingExploring A month ago I was invited into a dance of awareness. I was invited to live with greater integrity. I recognized in my interactions with myself and others that there was an inherent boundary I was not respecting. A gate I was ignoring, walking through without honoring its sacred presence. I was acting […]
Holy Wholes, Including the Holes!
I feel whole. Included in that is a void, a hole… missing that which has been lost, that which is changing. Missing not in a longing way, just in a recognizing a groove that is paved and was once vibrantly filled… and now is near empty… the same rushing current no longer fills its chamber. […]
Hearing, Seeing and Loving
Anne Stadler recently inquired on an email list: I am wondering do you feel “heard”, “seen”, and “loved”—even by the people with whom you are conversing? Do you feel you are engaging fully (using all your intelligences!) with each other and the whole in this exploration? Many inspiring responses have emerged… and here is what […]
A Curious Course
What is this mysterious flow between personal, impersonal, transpersonal? What does my soul long for? What does it feel like for me to answer a call, beckoning my re-turn to Self? Holding my gentle edges… embracing all of my selves… holding with gentleness, embracing what-is. Each moment guided by deep listening, trust and reverence for […]