The Demon Dialogues
Nearly two years ago I embarked on a project which would turn out to be one of the biggest adventures of my life. It was not an outer adventure. The mountains I was scaling, the deserts I got stranded in, the rivers I nearly drowned in, were all part of my inner terrain. I was on a wild adventure I had postponed for a very long time: learning how to love. It all began with needing. Through the inner work and the training I was doing, I realized that I needed more contact, more presence and more...
Read MoreThe Tire Iron and the Tamale
Many wisdom teachings speak about how our natural compassion can be awakened when we ‘moisten the heart ‘ with our tears. The Dalai Lama has been seen at times, crying deeply in front of large crowds of people. I have often wished that I could share my feelings as freely as he does. It takes a lot of freedom and humility, to share our tears with other human beings. Learning to let our tears flow has a tenderizing, softening influence on us. It dissolves our sense of separation and...
Read MoreYou’d Be Surprised
Our brains are designed to seek novelty and they are fulfilled by it. Based on his discoveries, Berns argues that the more complicated and challenging a life you pursue, the more likely it is that you will be satisfied. It’s simple–our brains thrive on complexity.
Read MoreA Fire In The Belly
Right now, in our wild, crazy, and busy world, there have never been so many sources of good information. You can go online, any hour of the day or night, and read highly intelligent texts, and very beautiful poetry. You can hear awake and evolved beings offer sacred teachings, listen to state of the art psychology, or brilliant and potent coaching. Here is one of my favourite examples, from Sogyal Rinpoche, ‘Rest in Natural Great Peace.’ And it’s all free, running like water...
Read MoreYou Are Surrounded
“We cannot save things. Things pass away. We can only attend to relationships, to the relationships between things. Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate.” ~Barry Lopez I remember the cowboy movies I used to watch as a child, which often reached a defining moment in which a man heard the words:...
Read MoreLearning to Be Here
yes, yes, that’s what I wanted, I always wanted, I always wanted, to return to the body where I was born. ~Allen Ginsberg It can be quite a shock, when you begin to see: you thought all this time that you were here, but you were not. Not all of you. That’s what has happened for me, over the last few years. I discovered how much of myself I left behind. I had to learn to call those parts of myself back into my life, into my living breathing existence, into my body. It...
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