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“To break free of the automatic habits of distraction and emotional reactivity, so as to live your deepest nature in an abiding way, can be very challenging. Mainstream culture doesn’t really support it very much. For this reason, some people have chosen to live in a community with a teacher, or to be [...] In the Southern Hemisphere, where I live, Christmas (which is today) falls in the same week as the Summer Solstice, also known as Midsummer, the central turning point of the season. The solstices might be understood as rituals of light. They mark the shortening and the lengthening of the days, and with the day, [...] The Frog Prince ~ PJ Lynch
The motif of the Frog Prince came up while talking with my psychoanalyst today about one of the characteristic dynamics of my intimate relationships: I’ve been finding wounded men, kissing them and waiting for them to transform and thus redeem my wounds. When I came home and [...] I bought this tree seventeen years ago. For years, I carried her from share-house to share-house. She weathered life in some very dim inner city room corners, stoically holding on with six very countable leaves. Yet, over those years I became affectionally attached to this beautiful Benjamina Ficus and made her whispered promises that I [...] A perfectly cast article by Susan Piver about tuning into our own inherent goodness:
It means being who you are rather than who you thought you were supposed to be. This is an act of love, not to mention authenticity, joy, daring, kindness. Vulnerability. Belief in your own [...] The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger [...] Mictecacihuatl
The Aztec goddess Mictecacihuatl, queen of the underworld, presides over the Mexican Day of the Dead remembrance and celebration of the passed loved ones and ancestors. In Celtic lore, this is the time of Samhain, when the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead become thin, [...] Refuge connotes a nurturing shelter from potentially harsh elements. A cave on a mountain pass, or perhaps a hut at the end of a long walk; a shelter freely offered to the lonely traveller on the way. But why refuge in Buddhist precepts ? I have taken the wisdom of Buddhism for many a [...] Johnathan Franzen’s deeply engaging novel Freedom is an exploration of the disappointments of adult life and of what depth may emerge, through complication and pain, when the glow and bloom of youthful certainty, hedonism and adventure burn away. Set inside the questions of this age, Franzen’s principle characters stare into the void of a [...] |
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