Emptying ourselves of all thoughts, beliefs, ideas, conclusions and positions is a powerful meditative practice.

Within that practice we can feel more deeply into our true nature, past the illusion of form and ego focused identity.

We put it all do...

Everything we do that brings us the most pleasure in life has some element of forgetting about our “self” for awhile.

Dancing, listening to music, reading a good book, painting, meditation…..

We become so immersed in the experience and sensation of...

Foundational to a life of grace, joy and spiritual growth is the strengthening of our ability to trust.

Not trust that everything happens for a reason, or trust that people are inherently good, or trust that everything will turn out alright. But jus...

When a significant and foundational part of our life falls apart or starts to come apart at the seams we resist.

And that makes sense.  We feel extremely vulnerable when the parts of our lives that we’ve worked so hard to build fall apart.

But ofte...

The mind cannot successfully navigate and interpret life all on its own.

Our internal guidance system, our own deep knowing, is a powerful resource that many have forgotten how to listen to, or perhaps never learned to trust in the first place.

Cul...

Our meditation practice is not simply an opportunity to recharge ourselves, it is an opportunity to practice and strengthen life skills such as non-attachment, presence, compassion, the easing of story telling, etc…

We then take those skills that...

Seeking our identity through the highs and lows of life is a precarious roller coaster ride of illusion.

If we’re experiencing successes, then we believe that we are worthy.  If we are experiencing failures or if we’re showing up in less that flatte...

Often those who begin a meditation practice have the experience within the stillness that “this is boring and there’s nothing to do here.”

But with patience and a new perspective we can find a vastness within ourselves that mirrors the vastness with...

“The sacred dimension is not something
that you can know through words and ideas
any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like
by eating the recipe.

The modern age has forgotten that facts and information,
for all their usefulness, are not t...