The modern-day mystic and Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello once said: “Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.” This statement…
We were three days into a weeklong meditation retreat when one of my students, Daniel, came in to see me…
Not too long ago, my ex-husband, Alex, brought us a big batch of his homemade almond butter. It is such…
All of us live with fear. Whenever fear takes over, we’re caught in what I call the trance of fear.…
The great Tibetan yogi Milarepa spent many years living in isolation in a mountain cave. As part of his spiritual…
This is from a poem that I love. It’s called, “Fire” by Judy Brown. What makes a fire burn is…
The happiest people I know have something in common: they are whole-hearted in how they engage in their lives...whole-hearted in…
Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that…
To listen is to lean in softly With a willingness to be changed By what we hear -Mark Nepo What…
Many years ago when I was pregnant with my son, I decided to have a home birth without drugs, assisted…