Friendships and relationships are a training ground for our relationship with Spirit.  When I use to hold God at arms length away, I was also holding those I loved an arms length away – because those I loved were a child of God, as a wave is upon the ocean. As I rejected God, I rejected

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As I was being driven down the single-lane dirt road, 200 meters from the cabana where I’d be staying for 3 weeks in Todos Santos, Mexico, we were stopped by a palm tree. The palm tree had fallen across a set of lines adjoining the homes in the area. We waited until it was cleared

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I’ve learned over the years transitions have a certain path to them, an emotional path. You could be in a transition of career, relationship, health, empty nest, money, or several others. Life is full of them. To wish life didn’t have transitions would be like wishing the wind didn’t blow. You can still wish, but it

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The long answer is “YES.” Yes, yes, and yes. ANYTHING can be used to escape from what we feel in the body. Including meditation. And the entire spiritual path. “I’ll just say my prayers, do my mantras, meditate, wish good will to the world… but don’t ask me to call my brother I haven’t talked

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Having a Catholic nun as one grandmother and a devout Catholic as another grandmother, I had a healthy dose of the Catholic experience growing up. I received a rosary from each grandmother every year for my birthday (need a rosary?), and went to church weekly. Every Sunday, dad would get us all piled into the

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You feel it. This sense of knowing that you’re growing/evolving, but your partner is not. Or perhaps in a different direction. You feel it in your stomach, perhaps your heart. Perhaps it emerges as fear. Fear that all that you’ve built together may be lost. That you’re growing apart. You’ve mentioned it to them –

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Ah – the toilet bowl. The mental toilet bowl I’m referring to. The one that says you’ve got to get everything done – yesterday, the one that says you don’t measure up to the Jones’s, the one that feels sorry for yourself or is pissed at everyone or everything around you. It’s also the one

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It happened again. You’re on your way to a doctors appointment running 10 min. late. The knot in your stomach grows as you watch the clock while you’re at the stop light. You think, “Damn it. I hate being late.”  But here you are. You know you’ll be late. You rush through the lights, even

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I love this moment. You know, the one that is THIS moment – as you’re reading this – this moment – the only one that exists. But we have, as humans, this unique ability to think in the past and future. It allows us to remember memories, and helps us plan for the future. And

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The first time I went to a silent meditation retreat in 2003 it was for 10 days. I’d never meditated before, much less for 10 days. And the most horrifying part going into it was knowing I couldn’t talk to anyone for 10 days. Would my head implode? What would I find in there? I

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