Archive for May 2013

Through my first five decades of life I was very immature in the matters of love and Union, and in the end this immaturity and what it led to – in both my marriage and my divorce – was so devastating to my wife and to my own soul.

…who in my life has inspired me toward self realization – toward being fully who I am. Good question, and at first I drew a blank.

How can I have very deep conversations with so many people on the one hand and say I avoid healthy mature attachments to people on the other? Why do I insist that I don’t belong?

Freedom to be ME with all of my anxiety, my defenses of pride and self-will, my enthusiasm for life, and more.

I noticed that when I sensed that I am thus held I could, for that brief moment, surrender to “what is.” And in those brief moments I felt safe, relaxed, and in a state of equanimity.

it was another sobering day, a day taking me closer to seeing and accepting who I really am – merely and utterly human. Here was the litany of what floated up…

… the Sunday edition of the New York Times … Frequently we are stimulated and stretched by articles contained therein