This morning, I read something on the lovely Brainpickings website by the fierce and kind Pema Chodron. This is what she says: “The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. The other problem is that our hangups, unfortunately or fortunately, contain our wealth. Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.” […]

I have been experimenting with saying No a lot more. Although it’s becoming easier, it takes some energy and makes me irritable. Why did the person ask? It’s as if my anger at the cost it takes to say No comes lashing out at the terribleness of this poor person. Why are they making me feel so bad? 

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I wrote recently about an exercise that allowed for intuitive insights to occur. The theory goes like this. Although we can’t make intuition happen, we can get into a space where intuitive insights are more likely to happen.  […]

“I disappoint many people, and sometimes myself, by not being more obviously spiritual. I don’t go to church and rarely meditate in a formal way. I wear ordinary clothes and eat an ordinary diet. I have an aversion to much of the language I hear and read from today’s spiritual sources.” Thus begins the poetically-titled piece This Fractured, Heavenly World in a back issue of Spirituality and Health magazine. 
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