“I felt angry toward my friend. I told my wrath. My wrath did end. I felt angry toward my foe. I told him not. My wrath did grow.” William Blake True inner responsibility centers on our willingness to give voice to whatever is happening to us in the midst of a...
In a world that lives like a fist, mercy is no more than waking with your hands open. So much can happen with our hands open. In fact, closing and stubbornly maintaining our grip is often what keeps us stuck, though we want to blame everything and everyone else,...
We carry a center that is always returning. We all stray from the moment in particular ways. If we meet someone and begin a new relationship, it isn’t long before we’re walking hand in hand, while wondering if we will sleep together; and if and when we do, we are...
So hard to feel the stone and not the ripple. The moment we stray from where we are, we create a tension between two places – where we are and where we are thinking of being. It is this tension that blocks us from the sensation of being fully alive, because being...
If the love I have isn’t working, what good is money? So often we put externals first. Out of worry, out of fear, out of obligation, we think we’re being good Puritans by saying no to what stirs us. In the 60’s, the well known psychologist Abraham Maslow conceived of...
