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“Day five of water-only fasting. No food at all since Friday night. And I’m not the only one. Hundreds of thousands of faith leaders, secular leaders, workers’ rights activist, and poor folks nation-wide are fasting too. I happen to fall into more than one of those categories. And still the collective silence is deafening. Too many Continue reading Fasting Against Hunger – at elephant (Reprinted from Elephant Journal. First publication 3/8/11.) I am not, nor have I ever been, your typical Christian. Most wouldn’t even call me Christian, though I would say my spiritual reality is very catholic (small “c” intentional) and I do have my own special relationship with Christ. I am in no way claiming to be your spiritual Continue reading Lent: A How-To for Mystics Read my latest at Elephant Journal, Lent; A How-To for Mystics, TODAY! Excerpt: I am not, nor have I ever been, your typical Christian. Most wouldn’t even call me Christian, though I would say my spiritual reality is very catholic (small “c” intentional) and I do have my own special relationship with Christ. I am in Continue reading Lent: A How-To for Mystics at Elephant. Looking Forward to 2011! (Instead of Resolutions, Try Dedications, Intentions, and WHY NOTs Instead.) HAPPY NEW YEAR! Jump into Your New Year: Mind, Body, and Spirit Renewal Program * New Year’s Coaching Sessions – Start the Year with Clarity Dedications: Self: To keep working toward my best over-all health: Exercise. Continue reading Looking Forward to 2011! Even the idea of love is separation. In claiming a beloved, earthly or divine, we put ourselves into separation. Through this separation we have the chance to seek Continue reading In Honor of Ramadan Today I start with frustration. It’s not the topic I want to write about. I am dead-tired of self-introspective, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing writing, yet here I am today, finding my self starting with my own self-indulgent expression of dissatisfaction. Yesterday at therapy my (very awesome) therapist and I were talking about summer break. About how it’s easy Continue reading Learning to be Human Dilemmas of a Householder There was a time in my life where I so strongly desired to be in perfect Presence all the time that my desire for Presence became the greatest pain I had ever felt. I sought absolute ego death; annihilation of self into Self, the surrender of “I” into that which is greater than Continue reading The Devotion of Presence, The Presence of Devotion |
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