Love

Living and Loving Your Life!

April 1, 2012
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How often do you feel exuberant and intensely loving of your life? Is this way of being the norm or is it a sensation you merely touch upon in particularly happy moments? I am a huge supporter of, and have in fact devoted my life’s work to inspiring others and myself to love being alive, [...]

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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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Building Sanctuary

February 26, 2012
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I have a special place in my home, one that is filled with love, safety, and all the makings of the most serene of havens. It is my meditation and yoga space, a small strip of wood for my mat and props, nestled beside an intimate corner of the rug in my bedroom, both of [...]

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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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The Cultivation of Deep Love

January 29, 2012
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I take tremendous pride in myself as a parent. Being a mother has indeed been the greatest, most healing gift in my life.  I also take it rather seriously, given I had a really rough start as a child. Though my parents are still alive, I don’t think of them as parents at all, and learned [...]

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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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