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Letting Go
By David Whyte At the end things pass away into a hard won perspective. The sepia photographs of childhood like twilight encounters with...
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Mar 14, 20241 min read


Unraveling Resistance
On a conscious level, of course, we very genuinely want to heal and fully step into a life of deep intimacy, creativity, and aliveness....
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Mar 10, 20242 min read


Renewal
At times, our everyday reference points will fall away, revealing a shimmering, pregnant, dark void. What we were so clear about just...
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Mar 6, 20242 min read


The Fire of Attention
When doing psychological or spiritual work, the alchemists remind us that we must apply the proper heat to the material arising within...
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Mar 2, 20242 min read


Now
Sometimes we might wonder how to feel, in our bodies and hearts, what really matters. Perhaps we look out into the starry night sky and...
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Feb 28, 20242 min read


Inner Family
You may wish to consider honoring the role that various aspects of your inner self or psyche, your "inner family", have played in your...
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Feb 24, 20242 min read


Not Knowing
Perhaps you've noticed a collective fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives. And if we do not then this is evidence...
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Feb 20, 20242 min read


The Ultimate Medicine
Coming into relationship with the parts of our inner world that harbor and identify with unworthiness, shame, narcissism, and...
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Feb 16, 20242 min read


I Really Wanna Know You
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KZodeWxqxd88F9wY1cqgs?si=e9be31bd6d8c4010 https://youtu.be/6wHBsMoHFWs?si=A_1_8H1ed89ZrqF9 My Sweet Lord...
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Feb 12, 20242 min read


Perspective
By Rainer Maria Rilke You are the future, the immense morning sky turning red over the prairies of eternity. You are the rooster-crow...
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Feb 8, 20241 min read


Self / Selflessness
Teachings on “no-self” or selflessness can be misunderstood and potentially damaging in contemporary psychology and spirituality,...
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Feb 4, 20242 min read


Kindly Confronting Ourselves
For each of us, there are aspects of ourselves with which we do not want to be in conscious relationship, for a variety of reasons....

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Jan 30, 20242 min read


Learning from Disappointment
In any close relationship, we inevitably disappoint the other person; let them down in some way, frustrate, thwart or fail them. It can...

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Jan 26, 20243 min read


Narcissism - Me & You
The word "narcissist" and the topic of narcissism comes up a lot lately. The word is engaged in a variety of ways and contexts, to the...

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Jan 22, 20244 min read


Advice on Being Here
Rumi's Offering . . . In generosity and helping others, be like the river. In compassion and grace, be like the sun. In response to the...

Annelisa MacBean
Jan 16, 20241 min read
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