As the sun cannot withhold its light, we cannot withhold what feels real. As the Earth keeps going by turning itself toward the light day after day, we have no choice, despite all forms of etiquette and training, but to keep turning toward what we feel is real....
“Do not seek any rules or method of worship, say whatever your pained heart chooses.” Rumi “Mana” is a term originally used in Polynesian and Melanesian cultures to describe an extraordinary power or force residing in a person or an object, a sort of spiritual...
Often we give up our right to renewal to accommodate the anxiety of those around us. For sure, living is not easy, and living openly is both wondrous and dangerous. The fact is that shedding, no matter how useful or inevitable, always has a pain of its own....
From the beginning, the key to renewal has been the casting off of old skin. It is interesting that the earliest peoples believed in something that we, in our modern hive of manufacturing, have forgotten – that immortality is attainable by shedding. The Dusuns of...
Song is not a luxury, but a necessary way of being in the world. Somehow we have been fooled into thinking that song is entertainment, something we can do without, like dessert. But to give voice to what lives inside is what keeps all things possible. In truth, the...
