Lifeletter #176: The Life That Chooses You
Who knows what brings to us these moments, in which we are shaken up, startled, and issued a radical invitation: to step into the life that chooses us. This is our authentic life, not anyone else’s. It’s a life that is much much bigger than our personal agendas. And at the same time, this is our way, which is utterly unique. Not separate, and not the same as any other human being. Moments like this can be very disturbing. We feel clearly, viscerally, the impact of all of the ways in...
Read MoreLifeletter #175: A Safe Place To Fall
I was so honoured to offer her a safe place to fall, into this river of tears. Her courage allowed me to open to my own sorrow the following day. As I did so, I experienced a rain of kindness falling on me from everywhere, as I allowed myself to be seen, to be touched, to be known, in this fragile and deeply vulnerable place.
Read MoreLifeletter #174: Two Women, Two Worlds
I arrived at the gate for my flight back home from San Francisco last Sunday. As I stood there, I noticed a woman in a nearby seat, meditating. She had a lovely look, and her energy felt grounded and full of peace. She looked like someone I might know. About twenty minutes later, when we were lining up to board the plane, she approached me and said, “Don’t I know you?” I told her I was thinking the same thing. I felt warmth and genuine friendliness in the space between us. I asked her...
Read MoreLifeletter #173: The Bear’s Claw
My friend told me that the bear’s claw held the medicine, the nourishment, that comes to the bear when he or she rakes the ground, looking for food.
Read MoreLifeletter #172: Praying & Shopping
What now appears as the paradoxes of quantum theory will now seem just as common sense to our children’s children. -Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist “What does shopping have to do with praying?” you might ask. It’s a good question. My answer is that prayer is connected with everything. It’s not this esoteric, very holy practice that’s reserved for special, sacred occasions. Oh no. Prayer is for the dark and messy places, and for the mundane ones as...
Read MoreLifeletter #171: Dying to Live
A friend sent me a link to this wonderful interview with Brené Brown: http://www.theworkofthepeople.com/the-ultimate-act-of-love It’s short and to the point, and it begins with a question that lives at the heart of my life: “Do we have to die to live?” Brené says, “Oh yeah, a thousand deaths. Because of rebirth-not the Christian metaphor, the real thing. We have to bury things and grieve them, and they have to go away, for good. That’s death. And let me tell you, rebirth is...
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