I just returned from a week of sitting in silence in a beautiful lakeside home with a view of snow-capped mountains. For the first few days, my storyteller was fairly quiet. I was fully open to life, right here, right now. We are all homesick for this: actually experiencing life as it is happening (rather than… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Challenges
Awakening in Paradise
Preparations are underway for our next Hawaii Retreat in February 16-23, 2014, at Hui Ho’olana (affectionately called ‘the Hui), a deeply healing and magical retreat center on Molokai, and as I write this, my body is alive from the joy of remembering the last retreat. I want to weave some of the newsletter I wrote… Continue Reading
You Can Participate in the Healing of Our Planet!
I have heard from many of you about how my new book What’s in the Way IS the Way is touching your lives, and I have even heard from several of you that you are reading it over again! I am thrilled that it is being so well-received. I believe that this book offers, not… Continue Reading
The Peace You Long For
Do you long for more peace and ease in your life? I would like to invite you into an experience of peace and ease. After your next in-breath, allow yourself a long, slow out-breath. Melt into your out-breath, letting any tension in your body melt with it. Now, on the next in-breath, tighten your muscles. … Continue Reading
Life Is Our Mandala
”Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life. We enter a room, and the room is our mandala. We get on the subway, and the subway car is our… Continue Reading
What’s in the Way IS the Way
If I were a teenager again, I would be doing cartwheels all over the house, for my new book, What’s in the Way IS the Way has been sent to the printer! Its subtitle is The Transforming Power of Trusting Your Life – All of It! To give you a sense of what the book… Continue Reading
You Are Not Alone
Even though you may not recognize it, there is support that is always with you. Oprah, in her farewell show, spoke directly to this. She used the word ‘God,’ but I like what Stephen Levine says, “I can use the word ‘God’ because I don’t have a clue about what that means, but there is… Continue Reading
What Would It Be Like…?
Imagine a day where everything was okay; not only okay but really okay. You may have just fallen in love; or you received something you have wanted for a long time; or you’re on vacation with no pressures, lying on a beach in deep contentment. Allow the images of your okay day to fill you… Continue Reading
The Healing Time
This is one of the poems we shared at my retreat last week-end on Bell Island in the San Juan Islands. Finally on my way to yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into… Continue Reading
All our erroneous notions of truth
TIRED OF SPEAKING SWEETLY Love wants to reach out and manhandle us, Break all our teacup talk of God. If you had the courage and Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights, He would just drag you around the room By your hair, Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world That… Continue Reading