The Way of Compassion
A few years ago, on the way to his favorite diner, Julio Diaz was mugged. His is perhaps the most remarkable story of a mugging you’ll ever hear. On an empty subway platform, a teenage boy approached Diaz, pulled out a knife, and demanded money. Diaz handed over his wallet. Then, remarkably, [...]
Turn Your Palm I invited you in to the mystery with an open hand. I invited you in to the lap of love. I walked you down a golden path and touched your eyelids when you slept. Then I turned away and showed you a darker moon. You live in the land of [...]
Wednesday is a big day for me. I’ll be going on the Today Show, talking to 2 million viewers about women owning and claiming their brilliance in the world. Whew. Ack! Yay! Feeling all of those. Am I a little nervous? Yes. Also very excited and ready for a fabulous time! Good [...]
I write in the mornings, and most days when I wake up there is a vague direction for the morning’s writing sitting in my chest. I follow it and see what happens. Today I woke up with such love for you in my heart, and a very simple message: I want you to treat [...]
I really did grow up analyzing my dreams with my mom at the breakfast table, over oatmeal. She’d take out a yellow pad and we’d sit at the kitchen table diagramming the dreams, talking about different archetypes from Jungian psychology. I was taught that our dreams reflect what’s happening in our unconscious emotional lives, [...]
1. Hold the process of creating the goal as sacred. Make the goal itself a work of art. “Get in shape” doesn’t cut. “Run a mountain trail and love the run – even in mile 8” just might. Take time to develop a picture of the goal. Use journaling, collage, drawing, or visualization. 2. [...]
Yes, compassion for Tony Hayward, BP CEO. I’ve got loads of it, and I ask you to have it too. The oil spill boils my blood. I’ve cried about it, ranted about it, shuddered and shook my head. I’ve been angry, sad, shocked. Like so many of us, I’ve asked: How could we [...]
I don’t know why the thought occurred to me, but it did. It showed up suddenly, fully formed, like a telegram delivered. I was sitting in my office at home, feeling disappointed about something that hadn’t worked out the way I’d hoped. And suddenly popped up the thought: “Instead of thinking about your [...]
Today I’m happy to welcome life coach and fellow bogger Melinda Elliott. I really enjoy her blog The Easy Place, where she writes about growing our self awareness, one step at a time, so that we can create our lives more consciously. Read on to soak up Melinda’s wisdom. Your blog is called “The [...]
Even in the struggle, you are loved. You are being loved not in spite of the hardship, but through it. The thing you see as wrenching, intolerable, life’s attack on you, is an expression of love. There is the part of us that fears and protects and defends and expects, and has a [...]
