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Oct 15, 20247 min read
Don't Waste Your Suffering; Wind the Wound Around
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." Rumi, poet Some years ago, my brother, Steve, shot himself. Steve never recovered...
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Jul 26, 20247 min read
Relationships Win, The Golden Rule Still Rules, and Trusting In Our Goodness
These are not new values or ideals. As long as there has been strife and hunger and exploitation and cruelty, there have been...
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Jul 24, 202430 min read
Kinship: Bridging All the Divides, Tips and Inspiration from My Homie, G-Dog
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. Father Gregory Boyle When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in...
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Jul 18, 20246 min read
Emotional Hijacking and Triggernometry
Between stimulus and response there's a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
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Jun 4, 20246 min read
Blessed Are the Curious For They Shall Have Adventures
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies...Abraham Lincoln. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not...
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May 29, 20246 min read
Suffering, Empathy, and The Parable of The Mustard Seed
For each event, use mindfulness, a sense of common humanity, and kindness to process the event in a self-compassionate way. Dr. Kristin...
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May 10, 20244 min read
Belonging To Each Other
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa An acquaintance’s obituary was published...
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May 2, 20246 min read
What Might College Protestors, Middle Schoolers, Addicts, Risk-Takers, Evil Actors, and Isaac Newton Have in Common?
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal, French inventor and physicist “I’m...
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Apr 18, 20247 min read
Earth Day and Cosmic Concerns
"You see the Earth with a sort of global consciousness, a global love. It's a phenomenon that fuels you emotionally, spiritually, and...
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Mar 5, 20247 min read
On the Hero's Journey Everything Changes
“The fundamental human experience is that of compassion." ― Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work...
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Feb 13, 20246 min read
Love Our Enemies: Getting Back On The Horse
If you fall off the horse, get back on (shouted by coaches and murmured by grandparents to keep us trying after failure...when they can't...
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Jan 1, 20243 min read
A Good Resolution for Us All?
Let our New Year’s resolution be this: We will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. —...
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Oct 24, 20234 min read
What Can We Do When Life Goes Wrong?
“May you always know you have my hand to hold.” — JJ Heller When my granddaughters were young, they delighted in having their meals...
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Sep 26, 20234 min read
PULSE, Sensing the Sacred, and Connecting to the Cosmic Heartbeat of Compassion
The cultivation of compassion is really a process of recovery – of retrieving an inherent capacity that has become, either in the moment...
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Aug 26, 20236 min read
Could The Problem Be a Stifled "Gift"?
“The meaning of life is to find your gift...." Pablo Picasso A couple of days ago, we shared one strength with each other in our...
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Jul 31, 20234 min read
"That's Emotions, Mama"
Stop, breathe slow, and make a smart choice." Aldie, mindful paragon Imagine yourself at bedtime. An adult processing the day. Think...
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Jun 19, 20235 min read
If You Want To Be Happy...
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world when we live with these truths. ...
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May 25, 20238 min read
Give Us That TRULY Old-Time Religion
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation." Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, American Congregationalist clergyman of the 1800's,...
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Apr 5, 20233 min read
Opening To Our Darkness
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own...
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Mar 29, 20234 min read
Who Am I? Who Are You?
If you want to understand me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in...
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