Holding space is one of those spiritual terms that mystifies a lot of people. It’s like, “How do I hold space exactly? Is that like taking up space?” No. Not really. Holding space is about how we learn to be with others without judgment. It doesn’t require you to be anyone other than who you […]
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One of the common things that happens to many people on the spiritual path is that they move into a very different heart-space, head-space, and really soul-space than everyone else around them–including their romantic partner. This last one is the really hard one because you will be touching such amazing new intimacies on a wide
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Originally written in 2011, today, I feel like adding to this post. Today being in March of 2021. I’ve saved the original so you can hear my voice from the now distant past (at least by human standards). In that post, I am primarily talking about the sandcastle in terms of the ego dissolution that
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Last Saturday, I was hanging out in a park in Berkeley. It was one of those days when I feel like free-writing. Free-writing, for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, is simply letting yourself write whatever. I write in such structured ways for most of my time that it’s a real relief and
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For most of our lives, a lot of us try to put a good face on things even when we feel awful. We end up using drugs and alcohol and even sports as ways to let out pent up frustrations and emotions. They’re more like steam vents; they let the steam out, but they don’t
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