Sometimes words don’t do justice. I could write about trust, but the mind can only absorb so much. The eyes – what the eyes pick up can sink into the unconscious – the place where anything is possible. Trust can be created, trust can be broken. Relationships can be created, relationships can be broken. Then

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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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Sometimes the spiritual journey can seem like a hoax. What’s it all for anyway? And sometimes nothing else matters but the spiritual path. As if it finally provides meaning to life in a way that nothing else has. When it feels like a hoax is when we have expectations that aren’t being met. Caroline Myss

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Sometimes it feels like you’re on a bucking bronco – being thrown around in the air like a 5 year old’s play toy on a bad day. Which way will you be thrown today and for how far? And where? Transition and change are some of the most unsettling times in our life. Yet often,

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Curses to life when it doesn’t go as planned. But who makes the plan anyway? It’s a little part of my brain that decides what the plan is. How can that little part of my brain control all the factors that go into that plan unfolding as I want it ? I mean really? My

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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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Life give you miracles every day. It’s hard to see sometimes when we get caught up in the minutia of the daily-ness. I want to introduce you to Sam Berns. Philosopher, high school student, and one incredible human being. Sam made no excuses. He was an inspiration this way. He shows us that each day

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Having spent the last 2 weeks on the road with a purpose of finding my new home, I learned a few things. I learned what I like and what I don’t like. I learned what I can live with and what I can’t live without. It was an important trip. I also had an expectation

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I spent much of my life being free – free to play, free to choose where I went to school, free to work, free to own a home, free to travel, free to drive a car, and free to dress how I wanted. Yet I wasn’t free.  Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years and

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There’s a song by the Goo Goo Dolls with this line in it, “The end of fear is where we begin – The moment we decide to let love in.” I’ve heard it sung many times. Words, powerful words. But up until now, I hadn’t really “let love in” fully. Rumi says, “Your task is

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