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Personal essays on cultivating meaning, imagination, and soul in everyday life.
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Releasing the Grip of the Past: Janus, Liminality, and New Beginnings
Creativity means to be who you are; to find words and images for your thoughts and feelings; to translate your inner life into outer forms, whether it be a garden, a painting, a poem, a home, a child, or a way of life. – Thomas Moore, Dark Nights of the Soul In my...
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Holding Tension: A Yin-Yang Approach to Healing
Reflections on walking the delicate path between stillness and action.
The Crooked Way: Lessons from an Oak Tree
A brief meditation on the subtle art of accepting our imperfections.
Poetic Consciousness and the Language of the Soul
A case for approaching life’s dilemmas with the wisdom of a poet, with an excerpt from Thomas Moore’s “Dark Nights of the Soul”.
Psychopathology and the Suffering Soul
An excerpt from “The Importance of Suffering” by anthropologist James Davies.
3 Inspiring Life Lessons from The Truman Show
Lessons on soul-making, authenticity and courage from a powerful modern-day myth.
Living Your Heart’s Truth
Unpacking the three levels of truth – mind, emotions, body – from David Deida’s book Blue Truth.
On Doing Nothing
Thoughts on finding stillness in the storm of modernity.