There is a lot of healing ahead
There is a lot of healing ahead of us and yet we are not through the traumas. Trauma is really about things happening that are too much,...
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Reflections
Jan 24, 20216 min read
For every human to meditate on.
What a historical week here in the United States. There is so much to celebrate and I think everyone agrees that there is a lot of...
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Jan 18, 20215 min read
Another big week.
This is another big week. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Wednesday is Inauguration Day. There is such a strong need to stay...
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Jan 10, 20215 min read
Epiphany.
This week we moved from the tender twelve days of Christmas proceeding December 25th, in which we linger in the preciousness of the...
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Jan 3, 20214 min read
A new year.
It is a new year. Although it may not feel like the fresh start that many have been hoping for as the pandemic surges on and we are still...
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Dec 27, 20204 min read
Time to take stock.
I hope that you had a meaningful Christmas amidst what was likely a loss of continuity in traditions and celebrations. I hope that you...
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Dec 20, 20203 min read
Final week of advent.
Both light and darkness are emerging, are necessary, are luminous, are beautiful. We are meant for both. Today we enter the final week...
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Dec 14, 20203 min read
Third week of advent.
It is the third week of advent, this precious season of waiting, hoping, expecting renewal, preparing, watching, waking up, pondering,...
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Dec 7, 20203 min read
Second week of advent.
Today marks the second Sunday of the season of Advent. There are traditionally themes for each Sunday during the four weeks acknowledged...
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Nov 29, 20204 min read
Advent begins.
I hope your week has been full of giving thanks and gratitude for the simple joys of life in the midst of all the changes in holiday...
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Nov 22, 20205 min read
All is well and all is not well.
All is well and all is not well. We are fine and we are not fine. These realities can be true at the same time. . . As we enter this week...
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Nov 15, 20205 min read
We must continue to cultivate our resilience and tend to our beings.
I am encouraged by the spiritual deepening happening in our world. Many people are seeing the need to move beyond our usual ways of...
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Oct 18, 20204 min read
We all feel the stress, the squeeze, the stretching.
We all feel the stress, the squeeze, the stretching. . . in very similar and collective ways as well as very different and particular...
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Oct 10, 20204 min read
Three-centered practice.
I hope that the practices of observing unnecessary tension in the body, emotions, and thoughts have been useful to you. We engage these...
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Oct 4, 20205 min read
Observing unnecessary thought.
I don’t need to remind you that there is a lot going on in our world. I keep hearing people say, “it’s too much.” I may sound like a...
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Sep 27, 20206 min read
Observing unnecessary emotion.
I hope the practice of observing 'unnecessary tension in the body' was useful to you. This practice comes from the Gurdjieff tradition...
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Sep 19, 20204 min read
Observing unnecessary tension in the body.
Last week I mentioned that it seems we are in a collective dark night of the soul. Whenever we go through difficult periods, both...
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Sep 13, 20205 min read
Are we entering a collective 'dark night of the soul'?
From the onset of the pandemic I have had a wondering about whether we were entering a collective ‘dark night of the soul.’ Saint John of...
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Aug 2, 20204 min read
Be gentle with yourselves.
Be gentle with yourselves. We are in the middle of a PANDEMIC, that is baseline. We are in the middle of polarized politics. We are...
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Jul 18, 20206 min read
What a profound time.
This continues to be a profound time of polarization and uncertainty politically, socially, physically, economically, and so forth. As...
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Jul 4, 20204 min read
4th of July.
Dear ones, I hope in the midst of your 4th of July weekend celebrations that you have taken some time to reflect on what freedom really...
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Jun 14, 202013 min read
The Seeing Heart and the Tools of Wisdom: Chapters VII, VIII & Epilogue of The Wisdom Way of Knowing
Click here to see the original post from Northeast Wisdom. WRITTEN BY HEATHER RUCE & SUSAN LATIMER Welcome to Chapters VII, VIII and the...
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Jun 8, 20204 min read
My heart is heavy dear ones.
My heart is heavy dear ones, There is so much going on right now between the political turmoil, ongoing climate emergency, global...
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Apr 5, 20202 min read
Life
At the start of the pandemic, one of the people in our community shared that she had been working with her mom to use one of her mom's...
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