Steps to Self-Compassion
The Difficult Thing of Being Human
Bodipaksa
We are beginning to learn that we have impoverished ourselves by giving up what our tribal ancestors had as part of their daily spiritual lives… Ritual is a means of approaching the inner world that the human race evolved early in its history… It goes back to the earliest dawn of time among our prehistoric ancestors… Modern people who are deprived of meaningful ritual feel a chronic sense of emptiness.
Robert Johnson
God Is Not Three Guys In The Sky
Jeanette Blonigen Clancy
Sacred Presence of Life
I am enough. I am more important than anything I will ever accomplish, for I am the sacred presence of life. It is with my enough-ness that I now cause my life to look the way I want it to look.
You Are Enough: Always Have Been, Always Will Be
David Walker
Realm of the Heart
Suffering can be unpleasant and sometimes cause us to close our hearts, making us bitter and cold. But if we allow suffering to penetrate our being, it can bring us to the tender and vulnerable realm of the heart.
Blossoming of Suffering
When experienced from the heart, suffering can blossom into loving-kindness, compassion, gratitude, peace, and even joy.
A Fool’s Guide to Actual Happiness
Mark Van Buren
How Synchronicity Works
Synchronicity requires a human participant because it’s a subjective experience in which we give meaning to a coincidence. Meaning differentiates synchronicity from a synchronous event. A synchronous event is anything simultaneous — events that occur at the same moment. Clocks are synchronized, airplanes are scheduled to take off at the same time, several people walk into the same auditorium at the same moment, but no one sees anything significant in these coincidences. In synchronicity, however, the meaningful coincidence occurs within a subjective timeframe. We link two events together, the events need not occur simultaneously, although that’s often the case.
Inner Knowing
Helen Palmer, Editor
Who Knows Anyhow? 