"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.ā ~Rumi Hereās a powerful question for you: what are you devoted to? What weāre devoted to is what we intentionally focus our time, ...Read More
Moving Beyond Our Personal Pain
āCan you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light?" ~Tao Te Ching I was recently speaking with someone who was caught in a swirl of emotions. She felt so overwhelmed by the emotional energy that she didnāt know what to do with it. I guided her to first take a couple of breaths and make space ...Read More
Already Whole and Fully Alive
"You suppose you are the trouble, but you are the cure. You suppose that you are the lock on the door, but you are the key that opens it. It's too bad that you want to be someone else. You don't see your own face, your own beauty. Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.ā ~Rumi Are you actually here, present in ...Read More
Be a Fierce and Gentle Warrior for Love
āWatching the moon at dawn, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.ā ~Izumi Shikibu As humans, we tend to seek pleasure and avoid pain. This is a survival mechanism reinforced by the brain that keeps us alert and ready for action.Ā Painful emotions? Feelings behind our compulsive behaviors? ...Read More
The Happiness You Seek Is Already Here
āLove, peace and happiness are inherent in the knowing of our own being. In fact, they are the knowing of being. They are simply other names for our self.ā ~Rupert Spira I was a seeker of happiness for many, many years. I really wanted to be happy, but I was anxious, sometimes depressed, had ongoing struggles in ...Read More
What About Living What You Already Know
āTo me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.ā ~Walt Whitman If youāre really honest with yourself, if you go to the deepest place within, Iām guessing that you know the truth: the truth that living from love is possible, that you can be free of whatever holds you back, ...Read More
Flexible Mind, Open Mind
āIf one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.ā ~Ramana Maharshi I love this quote by Ramana Maharshi because it points us to an essential truth about the power of the mind:Ā whatever is happening in our minds is what we project onto the world. If the mind is peaceful, everything appears peaceful. ...Read More
It’s Not Personal
"I want to unfold.Ā Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false..." ~Rainer Maria Rilke Are you sensitive, prone to feeling resentment, rejection, disapproval, or disappointment? Then youāre taking things personally, and you know how much it hurts. Taking things personally is one of the ...Read More
Is Your Comfort Zone Really That Comfortable?
āStop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.ā ~Rumi Who doesnāt want to be comfortable? I love it when Iām relaxed, sitting in a cozy chair, and feel at ease with the people Iām with. All is well. But there is this imaginary place we call ...Read More
Most Thinking: Not Necessary
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.ā ~Socrates I used to live my life completely caught up in my mind. An underlying sense of anxiety fed a constant stream of thinking that left me feeling stressed and out of sorts. āShould I choose this or that? What are the pros and cons? Should I have said ...Read More
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