I woke today thinking about how we are all just fumbling toward ecstasy — reaching, missing, learning, growing. Sometimes we collide with our own edges. Sometimes we surprise ourselves with how beautifully we show up. Love, in all its forms, seems to exist for this very purpose: it allows us to discover who we are […]
It’s understandable why the idea of this world as an illusion can feel difficult to grasp. The world announces itself through sensation — sound, color, emotion, urgency. It presses itself into our awareness so completely that it feels undeniable. In contrast, the deeper truth of our experience — energy, presence, consciousness — does not compete
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As you change, the world around you is transformed. This familiar saying points to a subtle truth: each of us is not so much moving through the world as we are meeting a reflection of our own energy, awareness, and state of consciousness. In this way, the world itself does not necessarily change — but
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After insight, after emotion, after meaningful moments of connection, there is a natural next step: returning to the body. The body is not something we leave behind when consciousness expands. It is where awareness learns how to stay. It is where clarity becomes livable, and where peace becomes real rather than imagined. So often we
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There is a quiet misunderstanding woven through a lot of spiritual language. That misunderstanding is this:that more awareness is always better. More insight.More sensitivity.More openness.More expansion. But awareness without support doesn’t feel like freedom.It feels like exhaustion, confusion, or being “too much” for the world you’re trying to live in. What’s often missing from the
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What if the path forward is not about rising above the drama of our shared humanity, but about sinking gently into it? What if you gave yourself permission simply to be—in tune with the present moment, deeply engaged, honoring this moment as sacred. Spiritual seekers sometimes fall into the role of just that — seekers
On occasion, I get feeling a bit magical and domestic. The energies of the earth let me know they seek expression through me, and so when I prepare food, I infuse kitchen witchery and joy into what I create. The way forward is simplicity itself. First, I consider the nature of each ingredient and add
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Now is the time to recognize whether you’re allowing yourself the extraordinary gift of being at ease with who you are, and where you are. Life is not asking you to become someone else before you belong. All of existence is already welcoming you — the moon and the stars, the earth and her creatures,
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Care-giving has a way of pulling the veil off time. With my dog, Minky, the Now is simple because her body is honest. Her heart is enlarged, her breath sometimes falters, and the present moment speaks in clear, tender questions: Is it medicine time? Is it hound-honey time? Does she need my hand on her
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Some guides walk beside us on two legs, speaking wisdom in words. Others arrive quietly, wrapped in fur, whiskers, and unwavering devotion. Our domestic animals are among the most consistent teachers we will ever meet, though they rarely draw attention to their mastery. They simply love — fiercely, fully, and without reservation. . As I
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