Deserts, Loneliness and the Happy Night
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~~Norma Cousins Happy Saturday! 🙂 This morning I’m thinking of deserts, demons and coming home to the self, about all of the folks out there plagued or harassed by some sort of sickness or inner demon…. These things are on my mind for lots of reasons, but primarily because I just spent the last week literally sicker than I have ever been. Because my core spiritual training is native with some Buddhist and Christian thrown in for seasoning, my assumption is that I just had the equivalent of a flu...
Read MoreThe Practice of Loving-Kindness
A few people have asked me lately about metta, also known in some circles as maitri.  Metta is a practice of loving kindness toward self and others. There are volumes written about metta, it is a basic Buddhist practice in all traditions. Pema Chodron is a well known teacher of this practice and has written many books on the subject. The basic practice is to first practice loving kindness toward the self, to truly make friends with yourself.  When you find peace within, you can more readily practice it toward others. The Judeo-Christian version of this is “to love your neighbor as...
Read MoreThe Mountain Remains…
I am always with all beings, I abandon no one. And however great your inner darkness, you are never separate from Me.  Let your thoughts flow past you calmly. Keep Me near, at every moment. Trust Me with your life, because I Am you, more than you yourself are… ~~~Bhagavad Gita I spent the last few days with my parental units, in a little town in Southeast Missouri. This is an area I blogged about last week when I was thinking of my grandmother and my memories of smells, heaven and so on. Lest I sound too romantic, the other reality is that this area located in the buckle of the...
Read MoreForgiveness, Metta & Priorities
Good morning, Happy Thursday! 🙂 I’ve had several conversations today about priorities, forgiveness and how making forgiveness a priority is such an integral part of the journey and a good life. Forgiveness comes from words meaning “allow,” and literally means “for giving.”  Everyone I’ve talked to today is having such a rough time, and there is a lot of emotion swirling around. All of this got me thinking about feelings and what we do with them, and about for-giving. I think when we forgive we give up the sense of being a victim so we can set ourselves...
Read MoreShowers of Mercy
I’ve gotten a few 911 calls this morning from people in crisis or pain. This is such a deep time for people, it seems like everyone I know and most of my clients are in some kind of relationship shift, some kind of transition or deep grief.  Lots of people are sick, lots of things are in a big transition. I am acutely aware of the pains and joys of the people in my inner circle and beyond…aware that like the breath rising and falling, life ebbs and flows, ever moving into something new and different. But the memories linger, the hopes and dreams and hurts and forgiveness...
Read MoreMorning Prayers & Ponderings…
I’m catching up on some reading and prayer this morning. Prayer literally means “to beg.” There is a lot of begging going on these days around me, a lot of people are having a hard time. So, as is my daily practice, I am settling in soon to pray, to meditate and to be more in touch with the Divine presence I believe is always whispering sweetly around me. But, as the Maharishi said, “the winds of God’s grace are always blowing, but it is up to us to raise our sails.” This morning I was catching up on 4011 emails and came across this nifty prayer from...
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