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Lifeletter #136: No More Crazy Love

Posted by on May 18, 2015 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 2 comments

Lifeletter #136: No More Crazy Love

It took me a long time to come to terms with the difference between sane love, smart love, and what I believed love was.

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Lifeletter #135: Melting the Heart Wall

Posted by on May 11, 2015 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 1 comment

Lifeletter #135: Melting the Heart Wall

Throughout the morning, I kept wondering about him. What had happened to him to create such open-heartedness? I could sense that this man was living outside the constraints of our everyday conditioned consciousness. What was it that had so thoroughly melted the walls around his heart?

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Lifeletter #78-Here’s Redemption

Posted by on May 6, 2015 in Lifeletters & Articles | 0 comments

Lifeletter #78-Here’s Redemption

Lifeletter #78 Here’s Redemption Meeting with a Killer Did you ever watch something that left you walking around on a tilt? As if some fundamental idea about reality got pulled out from under you? A psychic earthquake happened to me when my dear friend Jessica Ryder sent me a link to a documentary video: http://www.utexas.edu/research/cswr/rji/mwak.html It’s called, ‘Meeting with a Killer,’from the Institute of Restorative Justice & Restorative Dialogue. Their byline is,...

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Lifeletter #134: Sex and Nondual Awareness

Posted by on Apr 26, 2015 in Lifeletters & Articles | 2 comments

Lifeletter #134: Sex and Nondual Awareness

What I have discovered is a way of being sexual that is as radically different from our conditioned notions of sexuality as the nondual practice is from traditional spirituality.

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Lifeletter #133: This Changes Everything

Posted by on Apr 13, 2015 in Articles by Shayla, Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 3 comments

Lifeletter #133: This Changes Everything

To change everything, it takes everyone. This means you. And me. And the woman on the street. And the person next door. Nobody gets to let themselves off the hook.

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Lifeletter #132: The Restoration of our Human Dignity

Posted by on Mar 30, 2015 in Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 2 comments

Lifeletter #132: The Restoration of our Human Dignity

Without this basic respect, all kinds of things can go wrong. Terrible mistakes can be made, in families, in organizations, in whole cultures, if we forget about how essential it is for each human being to feel this fundamental dignity.

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