“Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.” — Adyashanti

I am in love’s fire… Burning and forming Alone…all one. ~ Amen ~ “Love is not an attitude.  It is a bodily act.  In my crisis of conscience, I have to yield myself to the transforming condition of love.  It is a frightening and sacred moment.  There is no return. One’s life is changed forever.  [...]

Now you are no longer caught in the obsession with darkness, and a desire for a higher love making sweeps you forward. ~ Goethe ~ Let love be welcomed the moment it seeks us. ~ MC Richards ~

touching shame what seemed unbearable to face to feel softens in my arms as i look and see what is shame kills shame destroys shame keeps me separate shame keeps us separate i want life i want wholeness i want forgiveness i want contribution i want union i choose these things and as i choose [...]

Come to the orchard in spring. There is light and wine and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter. Only the soul knows what love is. ~ Rumi Love endures all things…

Thursdays are one of my favorite days of the week. Every Thursday I drive to Intel to teach mindfulness meditation. We gather in a conference room, lights down, to be here now. Today, we practiced mindfulness with eating a blueberry. At the end of the session one of the engineers came to me, bright eyed [...]

Love is sweetest when light meets dark. A sacred, tender place where my humanity and divinity embrace, commune. Even this is a concept, in reality, divinity and humanity are never separate…always merging and unifying. It is my awareness of this that falters… when I separate and polarize. When I struggle to meet myself as all [...]

A full moon poised above the sea Makes the face of heaven radiant And brings to hearts that are apart The poignant pensiveness of night I blow out my candle but it is just as bright here; I put on my coat but it is just as cold. So I can only read my message [...]

How does one function when everything one used as a gauge of how to function disappears?  The tendency is to look for a new way, a better way, an improved way.  But if we don’t try to possess it and we don’t try to know and we don’t try to solve this coming into a [...]

It seems nothing sticks anymore. The mind’s endless manipulation of reality has lost it’s hold, it’s incessant grip. I am good, I am bad. This is how it is, this is how it isn’t. Right, wrong, up, down. She said, he said. No thought is true. And as that falls away, I sense being open [...]