“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”-Rumi I have a young friend who speaks of the time when he reads stories with his daughter as a time that needs no confirmation. There is wisdom in his phrase: a time that needs no confirmation. We...
“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom”-Anais Nin We all face this turning point repeatedly: when resisting the flow of inner events suddenly feels more hurtful than leaping toward the unknown....
The greatest defense is being who you are. How often we are drawn into opposition with one another. Certainly, there are times that conflict is inevitable. There is only one parking space. This is only one donut left. There is only one job in view. But most of the...
Underneath, there is only one emotion I used to struggle, fighting off sadness or trying not to be anxious, but as most of us learn, once that drop of melancholy or unrest beads on the heart, trying to feel anything else is denial. Once the mind like a long guitar...
“Everybody’s bald underneath their hair.” Susan McHenry We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are, when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will...
