Vigil
I’m waiting for the water to boil to make my morning tea and my phone pings. It's a long text from a dear friend on the mainland—a poem she’s written about Russia and the Ukraine—tender words about being at peace and pouring milk and honey on wounds not ready to...
Stepping Stones
These are bizarre, turbulent, upsetting and, frankly, downright scary times. Humanity is at a turning point that has been a long time coming—a turning point all of us, consciously and unconsciously, having been dreaming into existence for thousands of years. The time...
Healing Division
Your point of view and my point of view are equally "right" and equally insignificant facets in the dazzling holographic diamond of inter-radiant opposites. Whatever is, the opposite also is, simultaneously arising. Yet neither of these little flickers of local light...
Spirit running free
I am discovering it’s enough to be me. I mean, what else can I be? Wait! Don’t answer that! It seems obvious. But it’s a trick question. Beyond those first precious months of life here on this earth when our eyes shine with the light of Who We Truly Are and we laugh...
Which Path Are you On?
Many years ago, when I first stepped onto the spiritual path, I left my husband and my television career to go off and live alone in a one-room cabin in the mountains of north Georgia. No electricity. No running water. No neighbors. Just me, two dogs, a cat, and a...
Be a FInder
Last year I gave up a HUGE habit. I gave up seeking and looking outside myself for answers. I gave up seeking because I discovered that, over the course of the last 40 years, I had found what I was looking for. Strangely enough, I didn’t know it until after signing up...
Chasing the Wizard
I don’t know how long I’ve chased false idols. But it’s been somewhere around 60 years now. The latest and (hopefully) assault from the Idol of Youth came as I approached my 70th birthday this year. Twenty pounds heavier than last year, recovering from an injury...
Accessing a Life Without Suffering
We are told our minds are powerful tools. That anything we can imagine we can create. And this is true. Which begs the question: “Why have we not imagined and created a world without suffering?” Because we don’t believe it’s possible. Suffering is everywhere. It’s...
Which “I” Are We Talking About
Here lies the entire problem with the self-help movement and most spiritual efforts. Who is the “I” practicing mindfulness and loving kindness? The ego. The illusory concept of the personal self we all carry in our heads. Who I really am—the divine Self—is love and...
Selflessness versus the Self
Basically, I’ve been paralyzed to various degrees over this issue for decades. Starting off as a spiritual seeker back in the early 1980s, it was clear from the teachers and books that the ego self was something bad that needed to be transcended—or killed—at the very...