Occupation: Writer Birth: 1940
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not exp….
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When….
Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in….
We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives..
The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of….
At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our needs who can foster ou….
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relat….
There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being. All we have to do is align our….
Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We….
Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitleme….
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own..
The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do..
A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which ….
True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it..
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength i….
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny..
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us..
Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings an….
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it..
Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable co….
Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating i….