Conscious Darkness – Jan. 10, 2020
“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable […]
Become More Curious – Jan. 9, 2020
“Become more curious about your own darkness. What can you learn about your fear of it by staying with it for a moment before turning on the lights? Where can you feel the fear in your body? When have you felt that way before? What are you afraid is going to happen to you, and […]
Seeing Can Blind Us – Jan. 8, 2020
“It makes me wonder how seeing has made me blind—by giving me cheap confidence that one quick glance at things can tell me what they are, by distracting me from learning how the light inside me works, by fooling me into thinking I have a clear view of how things really are, of where the […]
Remembering How – Jan. 6, 2020
Befriending darkness is the theme for this week, beginning with Epiphany on January 6. Selections come from Barbara Brown Taylor’s book, Learning to Walk in the Dark (New York: Harper One, 2014). “Learning to walk in the dark is an especially valuable skill in times like these—or maybe I should say remembering how to walk […]
