The Way of Compassion
You’ve got a heart. You know that part. But what is the container like that holds your heart? When you heart speaks, how do you listen? How do you speak back to it? When your heart moves, what kind of landscape have you created for it to move in? We can’t always [...]
Hi there, I’m so happy to welcome new visitors and readers who read yesterday’s guest post at Kind Over Matter. I love the spirit, community, and vision of Kind Over Matter. I love the idea that through the work I do I just might be able to support creative young women (which much [...]
Over a year ago, I wrote a post called Loving Reality. That was in the days of 38 or so mighty readers. This morning I was reminded of this piece because it was republished in Soulful Living. I remembered how much I love this piece, and how important I think this idea is. So I’m [...]
True surrender is easily misunderstood as passivity, as doing nothing. It’s actually a change in stance, a change in state of being. It’s a softening, a coming home to. It’s what we receive when we’ve made peace with life, and become its partner, arm in arm. Before surrender, we act alone. We act [...]
Hi folks, A couple weeks ago I had an icky, embarrassing experience. I decided to mine it for all the wisdom and interesting writing it could be worth. And that’s what I’ve done. It turned out to reveal all kinds of gems. I hope you’ll come read it – it’s [...]
In case you’ve forgotten, I just wanted to remind you of something important. I needed to be reminded about it, and I have a feeling you do too. A few weeks ago I was having coffee with a friend. I hadn’t seen her in months, but she’d been receiving my email newsletter so she [...]
I’m looking to the day when The suffering of others really does break our hearts. When we say, first things first, and stop shopping and throwing parties and upgrading office furniture until everyone in this city has had enough to eat. When we say, I can’t keep going knowing how many children [...]
Let them be themselves and run their lives. You worry about your own. Continually and regularly point out to them their brilliance; they don’t see it clearly and they don’t know its immensity. Be yourself, so that they receive the gift of a real relationship and of the real you. Do your [...]
In our culture, when we talk about love, we typically talk about loving another person: I love Sonia. I love my grandfather. What do we mean by that? When we love others, we treat them with compassion, kindness, and patience. We perceive their gifts and beauties and power. We champion and affirm [...]
For me, the process of transformation often begins with pain – a pain that grows in its intensity until it is great enough that I have to look at it and face its causes. One of the greatest tragedies of our culture is that we look at emotional pain–and its manifestations of depression, fatigue, [...]
