Thanksgiving: How well did I love?
On this new Thanksgiving Day, it is so easy to take for granted that tomorrow will come – that another opportunity will be given to witness a sunrise, spend a moment with someone we love, …
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Honoring ego and its role in our inner ecology
There’s a lot of talk in contemporary spirituality equating “true” spiritual realization with “getting rid of,” “transcending,” “killing,” or “annihilating” the ego. These archaic, patriarchal, war-images and metaphors are violent and feel very tired. A …
The portal to new life
It’s afternoon in the forest and the light is yielding to the darkness, just as the stars yield each morning at dawn. One moment they’re here; so close, luminous, that beauty, and then they’re not. …
Emissaries of the path
The next time you find yourself caught in a repetitive loop of thinking, spiraling, and falling down the rabbit hole… slow the situation down.Feel your feet on the earth. Sense the aliveness in your hands. …
Relational alchemy and the internal Other
Usually when we speak about the “others” in our lives, we are referring to those on the outside who we are in relationship with, that we care about, that matter to us.It’s important to attune …
Inside the secret places
Inside the body the lost ones travel, carrying our dissociated experience and unfelt feeling, taking up temporary residence in our muscles, cell tissue, organs, and breath.Scattered pieces of soul gather in our eyes, shoulders, and …
Into a vessel of light
When we meet with someone who is feeling melancholic, empty, shaky, or down, we can quickly become convinced that something is wrong, and that our role is to (urgently) fix the situation. To provide techniques, …
Into the autumn…
To walk in the early morning on what appears to be another ordinary day, with the summer and the fall still in dialogue about who will take it from here. Wandering between heaven and earth, …
A sign you’re on the right track…
The discovery of meaning, richness, beauty, and depth arises not only through an encounter with the light, but also by way of immersion in the dark. In ways the conscious mind isn’t quite able to …
Autumn and the emptying of the cup
Dear friend, I hope you’re doing well as we move into the Autumn, a time when the colors change, which for the alchemist was a sign of transmutation in the vessel. For many of us, …