Perfecting Love Weekly Blog Friends, The excerpt in this week’s blog contains one of my favorite stories. It comes from a Spirituality & Health magazine interview by Sam Mowe with Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield entitled “How Can People Be Deeply Spiritual and Emotionally Immature?….. <read more…>
Curiosity Weekly Blog Friends, This week, I am sharing excerpts from Terry Chadsey, Executive Director of Courage & Renewal (Parker Palmer’s organization). His sense of curiosity as a welcoming stance is an important way-of-being to create safety….. <read more…>
Holy Rascals Weekly Blog Friends, This week, I am sharing excerpts from a Sounds True interview with Rabbi Rami Shapiro on his concept of Holy Rascals. In a very interesting Youtube talk…. <read more…>
Ways to Get Unstuck Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 02/16/2017 Friends, The meeting started off with sharing ways of getting in touch with ourselves. The discussion then turned to sharing ways we use to move out of seemingly stuck spaces…. <read more…>
Mindfulness and Gratefulness Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 02/02/2017 Friends, We had a wide ranging conversation touching on mindfulness and gratefulness as ways to hold things in our lives and how that can change our perspective…. <read more…>
Changing the Past? Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/26/2017 Friends, Bill D. began the discussion by asking if there were a way to go back and change one thing in our lives, from a spiritual perspective, what would it be? And why?…. <read more…>
Ups and Downs of Life Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/19/2017 Friends, Carlton opened the meeting by sharing a prayer from a meeting she had just attended. There followed a discussion about being present in the now, in the ups and downs of life, and being at peace…
Stereotypes and Safety Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/12/2017 Friends, Carolyn started the meeting by talking about how much more she is becoming aware of the “boxes” (stereotypes) she has of groups of people, or ideas/institutions. Cindy raised the possibility that this was a way of staying safe….…
Non-Expectation Notes from the Authentic Spiritual Conversations meeting held in Cottonwood, AZ on 01/05/2017 Friends, Carlton started the group by sharing her thoughts with regard to attempting to understand for her life the meaning of having no expectations and non-attachment. …. <read more…>