What does it mean to live grounded upon the earth, to place our feet down and feel the ground light up under our weight? To be fully here, in the now and taste the world around us? To be so connected our inner compass that...
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. -Ralph Waldo Emerson How was May? Did you get a chance to listen in? And if so, what did you do with what you hear? Did you dismiss...
The Sufi Teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan writes in his book The Inner life “In order to get the right disciples and the right people to come to him, a Sufi who lived in Hyderabad made a wonderful arrangement. He got a grumpy woman to sit...
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make...
Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -Victor E. Frankle Right now in my home Vancouver Canada, my yard is covered in melting snow, I can see the...
Once I said to God, “How do you teach us?” And he replied, “If you were playing chess with someone who Had infinite power and infinite knowledge And wanted to make you a Master of the game, Where would all the chess pieces be at every moment? Indeed, not only where...
Trusting, untrusting, we lowered ourselves into this, let ourselves downward hand over hand as on a rope that quivered over the unsearched…. We did this. Conceived of each other, conceived each other in a darkness which I remember as drenched in light. I want to call this, life. ― Adrienne Rich, The...
To be honest, this Energy update has been really difficult for me to write, I’ve been doubting my intuition, and letting my inner critic give me a hard time. Thankfully, even inner critics get bored, and doubt isn’t quite as compelling as tenacity. So here...
The ability to turn your face towards home is one of the great Human endeavours and the great Human story. -David Whyte Home, please come home. My deepest soul longing is to know I’m home. This goes beyond having the right house, car, or family. It...