…where there is more transparency and more porousness and more of a natural exchange—a belonging to our world. What I would like to do in our reflection here is to…
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Blog: When the News Makes Us Miserable: Remembering a Fuller Presence and Larger Truth
…to the sense of our true belonging with each other and all of life. May the suffering of our times awaken our deepest understanding and compassion; and may we respond…
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart
Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and…
Anger: Responding, Not Reacting
…bring down barriers is to set boundaries.” Pema Chödron (from: The Places That Scare You) Also quoted: “When the gentleness between you hardens And you fall out of your belonging…
Basic Trust – Part 1
One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to…
Love is Always Here
Love is Always Here – One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses…
Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2
…loosen their grip. These two talks look at the ways fear-based stories create suffering, and how awakening from them reveals the freedom of our true, and universal, belonging. photo: pixabay.com…
Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 1
…create suffering, and how awakening from them reveals the freedom of our true, and universal, belonging. Includes a story from Frank Ostaseki’s new book, The Five Invitations – https://fiveinvitations.com/ https://youtu.be/WkeSaQXW7jI…
Ask the Friend for Love – exploring living prayer
…consciously inhabiting longing, can carry us home to loving presence. As John O’Donohue writes, prayer is the bridge between longing and belonging. ~ (a favorite talk from 2010) photo: Katia_M/Pixabay…
Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle
…and blind us to the blessing of that belonging. Father Greg Boyle is an American Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. He is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries,…