Category: quote of the day

May we all honor the mystery of our individual paths

When I was in the throes of my life's worst trials I was only occasionally able to deeply appreciate how I was growing and evolving. I'm now often grateful for my heinous experience - I've learned so many things. I also acutely remember what it was like to be in the dark. I do not assume that all people make it thru the dark..clearly suffering on this planet is great and widespread and we have no crystal balls. For these reasons I know that it's often cruel and not at all helpful to tell people that their trials are somehow for their own good. People need to find that reality (or not) on their own. We are all on different paths and we know not what another's is...

I no longer hide

butterfly for I no longer hide

 2025: Actually I do hide quite often these days. I have tardive dyskinesia (iatrogenic injury, infection and brain injury), often referred to as a "movement disorder." Calling it a movement disorder is extremely misleading. It is much more than the visible movements that people can see. It is often excruciatingly painful and it can be crippling. I sometimes cannot walk. I often cannot speak. I hide because people are cruel to those who look strange or odd. I have been tending to my body for a long time so there are times when it's not visible and that is when I venture into the world. At home I am often nonverbal and sometimes a fall risk. Night time is when the "movements" get really bad. Tardive dyskinesia can cause freezing as well as a lot of "movement." Anyway. The healng process continues and it's clearly moving in the right direction and everything I just said is also true.

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We can no longer say, I am right and you are wrong…

We can no longer say, I am right and your are wrong... Can you see me? (short video and collection of excerpts, Marion Woodman)

How can I get to know myself?

lone tree horizon for transformative Deconditioning

"How can I get to know myself? Not by thinking, for thinking only reflects my conscious being, but by meditating. Meditation goes beyond the conscious mind into the unconscious. In meditation I can become aware of the ground of my being in matter, in life, in human consciousness. I can experience my solidarity with the universe, with the remotest star in outer space and with the minutest particle in the atom. I can experience my solidarity with every living thing, with the earth with these flowers and coconut trees, with the birds and squirrels, with every human being. I can get beyond all these outer forms of things in time and space and discover the Ground from which they all spring. I can know (...) the Origin, the Source, beyond being and non-being, the One 'without a second'. I can know the birth of all things from this Ground, their coming into being in the Word." … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive…

"I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you. " … [click on title to read and view more]

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

"Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too." ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book -- This is true fear is contagious. It's something worth deeply contemplating. We need not fear, however, because one can also free oneself by recognizing what has happened. Then the contagion comes to an end. Observation is a form of illumination. Fear is a shadow energy and it cannot survive illumination. In other words Franklin D. Roosevelt was right. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Be madmen, drunks, and bastards…

human face painting for be madmen, drunks and bastards

If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success. If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted. — Thomas Merton

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Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine” … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Counting thoughts: simple meditation practice

Choose an important area of your life where you have difficulty or conflict. Bring to mind the key beliefs you hold about the situation, the people, the institution, the circumstance. “They are….”, “I am….”, “It is….. “, etc. After you have brought the beliefs to mind, question them. Are they completely true? Are they one-sided? Who made up this story? What if some of the opposite was also true? What is our experience if we let these thoughts and beliefs go? … [click on the title to read and view more]

Reality tunnels

Listen!-   we all have different reality tunnels...and they tell us different things if we're willing to listen...

The abyss is the chasm between heaven and earth, body and mind

In mental health circles the health of the body is often neglected. The body is too often considered secondary, if at all, when people become over-involved in things of the mind. And of course our culture has split the body/mind when in fact they function as one. Becoming aware of my poor neglected body has been critically important in my healing process. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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