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The Last Flip of the Perpetual Calendar
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... that things didn’t go the way I wanted them to go; that I didn’t accomplish what I hoped I would accomplish; that I didn’t fulfill goal six as clearly defined in my state-of-the-household letter in June ...
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July 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... you were stranded on a desert island, what book would you want with you?”--I would answer the collected works of Ken Wilber. Which is kind of cheating, isn’t it, because it makes up lots of books. So ...
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July 2010 State-of-the-Household Letter
(Journal/Journal)
... In my last letter to you, I had an admirable list of six things I hoped to accomplish with this gift of time. And now, with the gift of hindsight, I am reminded of the saying: “If you want to make God ...
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Twelve Doors is Leaving Home
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... quite sure it needs more. It could be stronger. It could say more clearly what I want to say. It could be more elegant. But the truth is, not only am I out of time, I am out of the emotional energy ...
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Who Is In Charge?
(Journal/Journal)
... this show not just because I want to get a dog, but because it offers some of the best psychological instruction to be found. In this segment, Cesar was dealing with an exceedingly aggressive Chihuahua ...
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Where Do Prompts Come From?
(Twelve Doors/Twelve Doors)
... note what’s alive in you in each moment. Be aware of who you are, where you are, and what is happening to you and in you. It's all material! Discerning what wants to be written comes, in part, from being ...
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Mahamudra (The Great Seal)
(My Writing/Poetry)
... window and see the moon suspended in the live oak. It inches its way across bare branches, and light diminishes; my mind churns, yearnings rise. I want to anticipate tomorrow’s meeting, ...
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Craving and Clinging at Publix
(Journal/Journal)
... was doing. I judged her purchases: Pop Tarts. Diet Coke. Pork chops. Dehydrated mashed potatoes. The girls’ energy escalated as they endured her momentary inattention. Wanting to contribute to ...
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Mahamudra
(Influences/Influences)
... legs across the bed. I turn to the window and see the moon suspended in the live oak. It inches its way across bare branches, and light diminishes; my mind churns, yearnings rise. I want ...
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Misguided Yogi
(Lessons from the Mat/Lessons from the Mat)
... which is what it is for all its awkwardness. 1. Do what you want to do. Do you want to do yoga? Yes. Then just do it. 2. Express your feelings. Examine them honestly, too, so that you don’t move ...
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Live Life Beyond Words
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... lost, or lonely, or unworthy. And today marks a full year of intense study. Am I any closer to where I want to be? Or to where I thought I should be? Or, as I fear, am I schizophrenic? One day I’m ...
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Lean in to the Difficulty
(Influences/Influences)
... and really afraid, I know I’m not going to be very good.” And then, confused and afraid, he writes anyway! So when things get tough in the writing, face the dragon and ask him what he wants. Instead ...
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Dispatched
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
Last may, when I started fifteen months of sabbatical, one of my primary objectives was to dispatch Twelve Doors as quickly as possible. The manuscript was roughed out—or so I thought. I wanted ...
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Can You Wiggle Your Toes?
(Journal/Journal)
... all the mess. I can’t stave off the chaos. I can’t stop dying or stop seeing decline and death. I can’t make people well. I can’t make myself well. I can’t fix the things I want to fix. I know, ...
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April 2010 Reading
(Influences/Influences)
... work. I want to infuse this more and more into my teaching at Rollins. This is the big job human beings must start doing early on. Participial phrases will come soon enough. In the first section ...
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In This New Space
(Journal/Journal)
After I broke my foot, Marcie called to say she had dreamed about me. She knows more than most how frustrated I am with my shift in life circumstance, and she wanted to offer four questions for ...
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A New Kind of Balance
(Journal/Journal)
... begin to see the underlying qualities of wisdom in your life-situation. For the last two weeks, it has been hard for me to see the wisdom underlying this broken foot. I have so wanted my situation ...
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Precepts for the Evolutionary Teacher
(Sabbatical/Sabbatical)
... “me” story. 7. The earlier a person can discover and become committed to “significance” (rather than success) the better. An evolutionary teacher wants to help students cultivate an awareness of something ...
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Devotion to the Practice
(Journal/Journal)
... gardens as sites of healing, as well as for more deeply appreciating the experience of being alive. And she wants to share this healing and appreciation in many forms with as many people as seem naturally ...
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Pop
(Journal/Journal)
... this wonderful present-time happiness, I was clear about what I wanted the next four months of sabbatical to look like. I had a plan. I had expectations. I was moving forward in my life in the best ...