September 2009
9 posts
On Dealing with Shadow
The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark...
Subversive Sensuality Morsel 16
We all hit the wall. The place we feel helpless and drained – where we feel like we cannot go on anymore. My crash is preceded by signs of crumbling. But when I hit, it’s sudden; with a realization that all of the confidence and belief I had in myself, just moments ago, are gone. And I sit there, usually on the bathroom floor, sobbing and begging for help. I do not beg for god or any other...
Subversive Sensuality Morsel 15
Sink or Swim
The following is adapted from and inspired by, Oriah’s book, “The Dance.” Here she writes about the belief that has been blindly passed on to us, that in order to change ourselves, or an aspect of our lives, we must suffer or struggle. Because we are not aware that this is a belief that fails us, we will hand it on, like a sealed letter, without knowing it.
Many of us believe that...
