A friend was telling me how she recently arrived at a party and didn't know anyone there. Immediately she felt awkward, not good enough, 'out of her power'. Sad and…
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It's a sweet moment of clarity: the needing, grasping and clenching all fall away to reveal a wondrous, heartwarming sense of unity, of openness and ease. Then gradually we're seduced…
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Don't run from your suffering, don't rush to interpret it, or come to conclusions about it. Hold it close, meet it directly, feel the beauty of its wild intensity. Savour…
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Imagine an actor who has forgotten they are acting, who believes that they literally are their character and that the circumstances of the play are real. Every challenging scene, every…
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When our deepest beliefs, the ones we thought were rock solid and sacrosanct, are fundamentally shaken and crumble to dust, when our heart erupts and a molten lava flow of…
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Here it comes again, that old familiar scene: tiredness, worry, anxiety, feeling lost, lonely and confused, not knowing which way to turn or what to do, feeling pressure from all…
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A friend who once belonged to a particular spiritual group was telling me how some of the members, when feeling unhappy, frustrated or disillusioned, deliberately wouldn't attend for fear of…
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Worn down, hopeless and dejected—who is with you now? Who held you when you were told that you were stupid, when you first learned that you were faulty goods? Who…
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When we're fed up with all our painful, unwanted conditioning, when we want our life to fundamentally change, we can tie ourselves up in knots trying to make it happen,…
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Anyone who has ever used a PA system will know that if the microphone picks up sound from the speakers a feedback loop is created—the sound gets continually re-amplified and…
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