I quit my job more than a year ago and recently started a consulting and coaching practice. After several months of persevering, providence brought three consulting opportunities to me in one day! I had been working on one of these for a while with a lot of back-and-forths, but it finally materialized along with two others that were surprises. As I’ve not been working for a while, this will be a welcome infusion of cash. I’ve been thinking about how…
Is it yours or mine? Ours or no ones? To each of these questions, I would say yes! Love is yours, mine, our’s and nobody’s—simultaneously. Is love a noun or verb or adjective? For example, i) this is love ii) I love you, iii) he is a loving man. Love is all these. Who is doing the loving? Is it me or you? Do they love? (Whoever “they” are, we just know it’s not “us.”) Who is asking? I believe…
“Nothing, ever, is worth closing your heart over.” –Michael Singer This morning, as I was rereading Michael Singer’s excellent book, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, the quote above jumped out at me. Singer explains that by closing our hearts because of disappointment, or the trauma of past events, we close ourselves to the flow of energy through us, indeed the flow of life itself. Over time our hearts become constricted. Picking and choosing when to open and…
Now is where love breathes. -Rumi What does this mean? First, we are to learn that love breathes because love cannot be held too closely; it’s a living thing. For love to be love, it must be given away, just as lilacs—living and breathing things too—release their sweet perfume into the air. A sweet perfume that we can breathe in and enjoy. We cannot trap the lovely fragrance, we cannot inhale and save it for later. Alan Watts wrote, “to…