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Feeling of Compassion

March 18, 2012
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I’ve suffered a lot in my life. From a young age, I was so busy figuring out how to survive, that looking compassionately—with love, warmth, and kindness—upon myself was simply too hard to come by. When I was introduced to Buddhism at 16, I began in my brain to grapple with healing from within, and [...]

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Welcoming Love

February 12, 2012
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I don’t know about you, but I am cursed with an incredible inner critic. This voice has been around for as long as I can remember. It feels tenured in fact, and is always lurking, ready to pounce into action the more imperfect things get, which is, um, like all the time. The bummer here [...]

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Making Room for Spiritual Practice

January 15, 2012
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What is spiritual practice? Furthermore, do you have one? Simply put, I define spiritual practice as something you do every single day that draws you deeper into who you really are, by connecting you with your divine self. Please don’t be put off by the word spiritual here! Spiritual doesn’t have to entail–though it often [...]

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Ode To Our Inspirations

January 8, 2012
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How does it feel to be deeply inspired? Who in your life arouses these feelings in you? Inspiration is a whacky singular thing. No two people could ever possibly be inspired by all the same greats, though there are of course mass overlaps when it comes to the luminescent icons of our time, the visionaries [...]

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Thaw Out!

December 4, 2011
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Our lives are predicated on choice. The freedom to choose just about anything is truly our blessed right, however we are so often enslaved to the process of deciding, and caught up in there being a hierarchy amongst the potential answers—the best, the worst, the mediocre—that the liberation bit gets lost. What adds to the [...]

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How Do You Relate to Fear?

November 13, 2011
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In a blog I wrote last spring, I described fear as sweet and empty. I still believe that if we look into the face of it, fear has essentially these same qualities, like a wispy, conniving puff. Though it feels hulking when in action, it doesn’t actually maintain the stature of a super tough, body [...]

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