Years ago, while I was doing some spiritual work around a matter of grief, I was given this piece of wisdom by a guide: Nothing is ever lost, he said. What you think you have lost is right there in your hand. In this temporal world, where everything is in a state of flux, the notion that nothing is ever …
Tending Graves
A Vietnam veteran I knew told me a story about the first time he visited the exquisitely profound Vietnam Veterans Memorial, located in Washington, D.C. He said he paused at the name of every one of his friends who had fallen in that war and pressed his finger on each inscription. Then, he said, he was able to lay them …
While I Lay Sleeping
The other night, I had a half-waking dream in which I was given the following teaching: There are two worlds. The realistic world and the idealistic world. The realistic world is ruled by one’s father and the idealistic world is ruled by one’s soul. This little missive kept me awake for quite a while, not so much from a physical tossing …
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
There has been much talk about the meaning of this now past year, 2012. It is clear our world has been deeply shifting and evolving for some time, and we are not always certain, at first glance, whether these changes are good or bad. The universe and the Earth within it have forever sought balance–this is not new. So, for …
Go For the Gold!
Relationships are said to be a mirror, in which we can see ourselves more clearly. No surprise, we don’t always like what we see. All the scars and wounds from the past—the ones we thought were so well masked—flare out onto the surface like a bad rash. When the pain of abandonment, rejection, of not being understood or heard rears …