Joining with the spirit of life

Yesterday afternoon I sat down at my computer and wrote a little story, imagining myself back in high school but instead of recalling myself as I always had been: poor student, drinking too much, smoking cigarettes, feeling inadequate and trying so hard to fit in, I saw myself as a girl who had just "woken…

The “imprisoned splendor”: Releasing the real you.

The other day I woke up with a stomach ache that got worse as the morning progressed. I tried to keep my mind on positive thoughts of health, and then I had the thought, "Maybe this is a 'healing crisis' and I'm letting go of old stored-up junk that needs to be released." This thought…

these holy hands

Sometimes the language used to speak about the Divine, is antiquated and can get in the way of the deeper spiritual concept, but most writers of the 18th and 19th centuries, spoke of God in masculine terms. I have had to make peace with this and look beyond the limited use of language so I…

Opulent thought

So much of the talk today, in spiritual circles, says that to achieve wealth, we must think/feel wealthy. And yet, if we currently don't have money how can we feel wealthy? It seems like a catch 22 situation. We are told to "act as if" you already have the thing/condition/experience that you are seeking, and…