Go to the Desert – Feb. 1, 2023
“I realized how easy it is for me, when I face challenges, to want to turn to external answers or quick fixes to cover up my difficulties. But that doesn’t always work. In fact, it rarely works. What I need to do is go to my poustinia, to the desert of my heart (and a physical […]
Saboteurs – Jan. 26, 2023
“We need a foil, an enemy, an external embodiment of the part of us that is limiting our growth on the path. With a raging saboteur in our lives, tromping all over our neediest, limiting parts, we can no longer deny our self-limiting tendencies. With an external force causing the pain, we eventually recognize the […]
A Certain Happiness – Sep. 8, 2021
“It is only when attachments disappear that one enters the boundless realm of spiritual freedom called love. One is now released to see and to respond. The orchestra is within you, and you carry it with you wherever you go. The things and people outside you merely determine what particular melody the orchestra will play. […]
