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Ties That Bond

January 28, 2021

As we move through tumultuous times, I have been thinking about how we venture forward together. In these times of national divisiveness when our friends and neighbors and families may subscribe to views of truth and reality that are often not only inconsistent with our own, but diametrically opposed, how do we avoid conflict?  More importantly, how do we engage in loving receptivity?  How do we come together—and hopefully stay together? I think the answer lies in how we look at our relationships—what we focus on. It is important not to get lost in our differences, seeing them as ties that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communion and Community, Coping with Darkness, Incarnational Spirituality, Independence, Love, Sovereignty, Transition, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Coping With Darkness Without Conceding

September 6, 2020

We have now spent most of this year facing the physical, economic, emotional and psychological threats and consequences of the COVID pandemic, along with the parallel crises of social upheaval and protest against the inequities of racial injustice, and the ever heightened polarization of our divided nation as we watch the sacred tenets of our American experiment in democracy attacked and depreciated on a nearly daily basis.  We are all exhausted. We are indeed navigating a very difficult time.  I feel and hear and know the anxiety and the loss that so many of you experience.  I want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Coping with Darkness, COVID, Crisis and Coping, Empowerment, Full Selfness, Incarnational Spirituality, Light, Love, Politics, Transformation, Transition Leave a Comment

Finding Calm in the Storm

November 2, 2017

This last year has been and continues to be a challenging time for everyone.  I have been giving some thought to what we can each do to maintain our own energy--and energy hygiene--so that we may stand each in our strength and integrity, and support ourselves and others. We each hold the possibility, and the opportunity, to make positive change, and it can happen in simple and subtle ways.  It can be summed up as: share your self light. This of course means that first you need to recognize and nurture your own light.  And how do we do this when we are stressed by outside events and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Crisis and Coping, Full Selfness, Incarnational Spirituality, Inner Allies, Love, Self Awareness, Self Light, Transition, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Coping With Conflict All Around Us

July 25, 2016

We are overwhelmed at this time with conflict and suffering:  internationally and at home, political, racial, economic, environmental...and I have been silently observing and wondering how to address all this.  Today I read a thoughtful piece by David Spangler that offers some sage suggestions on how to cope with the onslaught, and I am moved to share his perspective with you.  Thank you, David.   The Spirit Amongst Us By David Spangler These are heart-heavy days. Nearly every day, the media bring us news of more suffering, more deaths, more anguish in the world.  One day it may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Crisis and Coping, Heart Center, Incarnational Spirituality, Politics, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Alert and Available

February 13, 2014

How often do you worry about the future?  Or feel stuck or drawn back by something or someone in the past that you can’t seem to get past? Human mind and emotion have a persistent way of distracting us from the present.  We struggle with the business of being human--that is, surviving physically and emotionally--and we think far too much about it, often engendering fear.  This is our nature and our habit, and it is reinforced relentlessly by our cultures (including family, work, and community cultures) and by the realities of survival. We are shaped by our pasts, by our attachments and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consciousness, Full Selfness, Incarnational Spirituality, Inner Awareness, Mindfulness, Self Awareness, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

Nonviolent Action and Incarnational Spirituality

August 25, 2013

As we observe the fiftieth anniversary (on August 28th) of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Martin Luther King’s transcendent “I Have a Dream” speech, I am reminded of the quiet power and effectiveness of nonviolent collaborative community effort directed towards achieving common goals. Nonviolent action achieves its objectives without using violence, but rather through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other means. The modern form of non-violent resistance was most notably practiced by Mahatma Gandhi, and subsequently followed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blessings, Calling, Full Selfness, Incarnational Spirituality, Politics, Role Models, Sovereignty, Spiritual Development, Uncategorized Leave a Comment

People Are Good

June 19, 2013

Really.  I mean it. We often forget this is fundamentally true, and are too often reminded of our weaknesses, not our strengths, as humans.   But it is my consistent experience that generally people are good, they  mean well, and try to do the best they can for themselves and others. We can feel so discouraged or disappointed at times in what we see in the world around us, and alas, any such sense of pessimism can be negatively reinforced from a variety of directions (not the least of which is the incessant barrage of bad news by media on a 24-hour cycle of filling digital formats of all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communion and Community, Giving, Heart Center, Incarnational Spirituality, Love, Sovereignty, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Score: Darkness 2, Light 1,000,000

April 19, 2013

I am a Bostonian. We have had a tough week here.  We suffered a violent act of darkness as two young men attacked us, killing 3, critically injuring and maiming scores of others, and attempting to shake our individual and communal senses of security and trust. They failed.  Resoundingly. And so, even in the midst of this crisis, we have had a great week here.  Everything that is the best in us, in humanity, is on full display:  love, compassion, fearlessness in the face of danger, generosity, strength, selflessness, kindness, commitment to community, protection of others, clarity, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blessings, Compassion, Giving, Heart Center, Incarnational Spirituality, Joy, Light, Love, Places, Truth, Uncategorized 2 Comments

The Light Shines Through Many Windows

July 12, 2012

I got to thinking recently about belief systems after listening to a radio interview with writer and director Kenneth Lonergan (about his film Margaret, now out in an extended DVD version).  What caught my attention was his description of himself as a “committed atheist,” and more particularly his explanation of why.  In his view, all religions are creations, stories, myths, that are constructed as a way of trying to understand something that is not comprehensible.  In other words, we create belief systems to help us wrap our minds around things we can not understand. Things like why are we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Belief Systems, Consciousness, Finding Truth, Incarnational Spirituality, Inner Awareness, Inner Development, Light, Spiritual Development, Subtle Awareness, Uncategorized 4 Comments

Free Will

November 11, 2011

Free will is complicated. We all have it, and we all want it—as long as it is our own free will we are exercising.  But it is more difficult when someone else is exercising their own free will—against our interests or better judgment.  Whether it is a two year old throwing a tantrum or self-governing nations in armed dispute, it comes down to a battle of wills. Of course we agree to submit to the will of others in many ways, for good reasons.  So the parent must teach and protect the two year old, and in doing so denies the child her will, and properly so.  Likewise, to organize ourselves … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Being, Co-Creation, Full Selfness, Incarnational Spirituality, Independence, Sovereignty, Uncategorized 4 Comments

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