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  • Living on the Blocks.

    Week 9, The Artist Way…Julia Cameron writes, “We’re more comfortable being a victim of artist’s block than risking having to consistently be productive and healthy. “An artistic U-Turn arrives on a sudden wave of indifference. We greet our newly minted… Continue reading

  • Dark Space of Unknowing.

    Deepak Chopra writes in The Book of Secrets about the caterpillar changing into a butterfly. “Outside my window in winter I can usually spy at least one chrysalis dangling from a branch.  Inside it a caterpillar has turned into a… Continue reading

  • Reasons to Spin

    While dialoguing in the comment section on the Post, “Where Your Best Interest Lies” a few posts back, I am feeling like I am a reporter trying to get my story out and they are working like crazy Spin Doctors… Continue reading

  • Out of Control Controlled Person

    While discussing the attributes of suicide, two different people suggested that the body is out of control…and neither felt it was ‘them’ that did it, but a whole other person, a self that they did not know.   I am… Continue reading

  • Reconstruction on the Outside.

    I was surprised at how at ease I felt writing and even how peaceful I was inside, how comfortable I wrote my thoughts as they drifted by, as I looked upon this day, as I just seemed to write effortlessly.… Continue reading

  • With a body or without!

    Spiritual Education “Fortunate is the seeker who has not been led away from the straight and narrow path by diversions and popularized attractions. People spend lifetimes searching for authentic teachings and become sidetracked by the seduction of attractive, glamorized aberrations… Continue reading

  • Highest Good of All.

    The Will “The Spiritual Will is not like the ego’s understanding of will as ‘will power’, which means emotional force with clenched teeth of exertion and increased emotionality. The ego-driven will takes energy and is taxing. It could actually be… Continue reading

  • Life with no words?

    I listened to Deepak Chopra talk to John Francis who wrote a book called “The Ragged Edge of Silence”. He didn’t speak for 17 years. Yes, 17 years, but he did journal and he also gave up riding in gas… Continue reading

  • Elders of the Church

    There are no coincidences in life and the fact that I am learning about more and more sexual abuse in my old church while I am reading Alice Miller is profound. She is literally writing about the hows and the… Continue reading

  • Survivor Self.

    The Drama of the Gifted Child – The search of the true self, by Alice Miller. Here is what she writes on the back cover of the book. “Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide… Continue reading