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“I always feel that somehow you have to reframe that bad feeling – so that you see it as a doorway to liberation, as an opening to the vast blue sky.” –Pema Chödrön   [...]

Woo-hoo! I’m celebrating a milestone. 200 posts and counting. When I began blogging two years ago in December 2008, I had no idea I would love blogging so much nor that I could stick to my [...]

  “Take an interest in your pain and your fear. Move closer, lean in, get curious; even for a moment, experience the feelings without labels, beyond being good or bad. Welcome them. [...]

I was twenty-three years old when I first (consciously) experienced this memorable life lesson. I was (the new) Director of Social Functions of a preeminent boarding school at the time. To kick [...]

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. –Pema Chödrön I often use the metaphor of the weather to teach a key principle of letting go I call spacious detachment. It [...]