Life is so intelligently organized and self-organizing that it is only the habit of un-awareness that causes us to think and behave as if we could improve on its design, or ignore or resist it! Yet, when we yield to it – the experience of enlightenment – living becomes effortless. We’ve got out ot the way and allowed Life to live us! Magnificently. Joyously. Limitlessly.
Amedeo Simonetti Wikimedia Commons There is an ongoing tension that we are caught in, yet hardly ever aware of: the tension between our attempts to co-opt life into our personal dreams, goals and projects, and life’s own unfolding field of participation. The irony is that we enter the world as a participant in it – […]
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We live in an age of naming. By Jan van Eyck Public Domain Everything must be identified, categorized, assessed, optimized, diagnosed, explained. We are encouraged to constantly ask not merely ‘what we are experiencing’, but what category the experience belongs to. Is it anxiety or intuition? Trauma or oversensitivity? Burnout or laziness? Attachment issues or
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There is a verse from the Bible that many of us are very familiar with: Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. Mathew 7:7 For most of my life, I think I unconsciously interpreted this in a fairly transactional way. You ask
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Grace is not something that most of us ever think about. It’s not one of those words or ideas that enters our daily conversations. But in quieter moments – when things feel heavy, or when we can no longer hold everything together – something in us is already reaching for it. It’s not an idea or a belief.
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This might not always be obvious but a tension often arises the moment we begin to speak about God. There is, on the one hand, a danger in defining God too clearly even though we might do it in the name of meaningful discussion – and that danger is that we risk reducing what cannot be contained. On the other hand,
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We assume that relationship begins when we meet. But, in fact, we are always already in relationship. You see, before I see you, hear you, or touch you, I am already in relationship with you. Just as I am already in relationship with the whole world – with the air, the ground, the trees and the animals
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Why is it that, despite all our efforts and all our self-trained reminders (trained so well they click in automatically), old wounds can still resurface? And still hurt? The world and I are in perpetual dialogue. But am I listening? We may have experienced several cycles of this same, stubborn wound, rupturing and healing. And
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Sometimes, the scariest, most threatening place to be in is… Our mind Because that’s where our ‘demons’ seem to hide and are ever ready to reveal themselves. That’s where the courtroom with judge, jury and prosecutor are in full flight. That’s where our stories are crafted with incredible speed and unparalleled catastrophizing. Dear friends, as
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Your body is where—and how—you experience the world. Have you noticed? Without your body, there would be no world to experience at all. But your body is not an instrument that merely houses your senses or your brain. It is the very field in which all perception, reflection, judgment, reasoning, abstraction, and analysis take place.
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‘Thank you L…You have been so kind and gracious to me’ “Thank you J…for your kindness’ ‘A…please forgive me…’ Those were some of the last words I heard JB speak as he lay still on his hospital bed, reduced to bare bones and skin. Within 24 hours, he breathed his last breath. JB had lived a
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