June 2022
The Knack of Refraining…Pema Chodron
The knack of refraining ~ Pema Chödron Many of our escapes are involuntary: addiction and dissociating from painful feelings are two examples. Anyone who has worked with a strong addiction—compulsive eating, compulsive sex, abuse of substances, explosive anger, or any other behavior that’s out of control—knows that when the urge comes on it’s irresistible. The
The Zen of David Daniels
T What Really Matters – What If This Were My Last Day…?By David Daniels, M.D. “Here, I do my best to put in simple terms that love, and how to manifest it in our lives each day, is ultimately the path of liberation and “What Really Matters.” This means, embodying receptive presence with an open
Being Real…
Being Real “I don’t care how spiritual you are. How long you can melt in the sweat lodge. How many peyote or ayahuasca journeys that have blown your mind, how many master plant diets you’ve done or how well you can hold crow pose. I don’t care what planets fall in what houses on your
Keeping Quiet…
KEEPING QUIETby Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth,let’s not speak in any language;let’s stop for one second,and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic momentwithout rush, without engines;we would all be togetherin a sudden strangeness. Fisherman
