Category Archives: Being With What Is

IT’S NO USE!

IT’S NO USE! This remark comes from grief, from loss, from failure to change things so that life is better. Perhaps you feel that you’ve lost so much you can never fully recover. Perhaps you are resigned to things as … Continue reading

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UNEMPLOYMENT, KARMA, AND WHAT IS

These are facts – job loss and long periods of unemployment are experienced by millions in this country, and not just once. It can happen, unbelievably, over and over. I personally have experienced layoffs multiple times, and so far there … Continue reading

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BEING WITH WHAT IS

How we recover from disappointment, shock, and loss has everything to do with the meaning we make from those experiences. If we believe that we are powerless, that we are victims and that life is against us, we will recover … Continue reading

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NO LONGER ON THE PERIPHERY

It seemed I dozed on the periphery for a long time, observing the coming and going of weather, of the seasonal hum of insects and flowers and the blooming and withering of all things; of all things, that is, that … Continue reading

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THE ZONE OF INCARNATION

At the still point of the turning world we are still, spinning. Shooting threads of light, finer than rainbow gossamer, diaphanous and delicate beyond measure, yet stronger than this life we know– by far. And these threads are a matrix … Continue reading

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INDELIBLE MARKERS

At the risk of sounding like a complete heretic of the prevailing cultural paradigm (the one that says you aren’t somebody unless you look like this and have status, money, and power, and have achieved so much and received so … Continue reading

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