“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.” Ane Pema Chodron There was a clay house near Puhaditjhaba in Qwa Qwa, South Africa. The roof was...
“The human soul is to God is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach and shuts when it withdraws.” Benjamin Whichcote God, like the sun, emanates on all: on the hill exposed in the open, on the plant growing in the window, even on the weed getting cracks...
“All the darkness! I’m going to walk into the light!” Job Sometimes there’s just too much to consider, too much to understand and analyze, too many consequences to play out in our mind, too many things to clean, unpack or repair, before we can go out and play....
We are all the stage and all the players. One of the great contributions of psychology has been to help us understand how we replay our hurts and affections with people other than those who have hurt or touched us. There are many names for this, the more well known...
“Ubuntu – I am because you are, you are because I am. ” A Deep African Way of Being In the winter, I met a man in South Africa. After several days together, I asked him about Ubuntu. He said, “It is a deep African custom.” He did not explain, but rather repeated its...
