Clearing

What is one thing that you’ve wanted to accomplish lately (or all your life)? What are the fears that are keeping you from doing it? What is one small step you can take – today – to soften [...]

“Awareness is like the sky. The emotions are… like birds that are crossing the sky. They come and they go.”–Ram Dass Enjoy this excerpt from A Year to Clear: What most clearing [...]

“…there is always a moment of grace or kindness or relief or humor or courage or a good cup of coffee or a sympathetic friend…or something that momentarily pierces the [...]

“The journey is the treasure.”–Lloyd Alexander I am thrilled to announce that my 365-day online course “A Year to Clear What’s Holding You Back!” has attracted almost 50,000 [...]

Do you ever have those special-occasion days that end up unraveling into an emotional heap?  Whether you are in the middle of a holiday season or not, may this excerpt from A Year to Clear [...]

“Teach me old woods to wither glad.”–Danish hymn by Adam Oehlenschläger, 1813 Years ago while on sabbatical in Mexico, my family and I befriended an expatriate Swedish author. Though [...]

“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.”–Henry David Thoreau What do you do when you’re stuck? You slow down, take a deep breath, and you simplify. It is the best [...]

“…Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, ‘Stay awhile.’ The light flows from their branches. And they call again, ‘It’s simple,’ they [...]

“Eucatastrophes are sudden, unexpected, but perfectly logical-in-hindsight explosions of good.”–Author unknown. There’s a word for it: Eucatastrophe. Though it’s not the [...]

“One could say that going through loss is the great awakener. It is a potential opening if you don’t run away from it. What is usually condemned as ‘bad’ by the mind and [...]