What if a dream sometimes gives us room to stop rehearsing the role we play in waking life? What if it might be possible to work out incoherence within our dreams? A recent dream has led me to consider whether dreams are participatory, in addition to being symbolic - that the
When we want to help someone, it is natural to begin with what we have to offer. We may have experience, training, information, a way of understanding something, or simply the memory of what helped us through a difficult time. Sometimes what we offer is exactly what another person needs.
When we speak about expanding consciousness, it can be tempting to look toward extraordinary states, heightened perception, or experiences that seem to carry us beyond the ordinary boundaries of ourselves. I have become increasingly interested in something closer to the ground. Within Orange Harmonics, one of the central foundations of
There is a subtle moment that arrives after clarity settles, when the words begin to feel heavier than what they are trying to carry. Not because they are wrong, but because they are watched too closely. I notice this when I start wondering what a sentence might do once it
Finding your note doesn't remove you from the field. It changes how you participate in it.
There are things we remember because we can recall when they happened. A childhood room. A particular afternoon. The sound of someone's voice. A conversation that changed something in us. These memories belong to stories we can tell. They usually have people and places attached to them, and
For much of my life, I believed healing was about repairing what had been damaged. Sometimes it is. A broken bone needs to mend. An infection needs treatment. An immune disorder needs to be suppressed. A heart rhythm sometimes needs the remarkable skill of physicians, nurses, medications, and technology. I
Most of us do not begin looking for healing because life is going well. We begin because something has interrupted the life we thought we understood. Sometimes it is illness. Sometimes it is grief. Sometimes it is anxiety that refuses to quiet itself. A relationship changes. A dream lingers. Or
There are certain phrases we use so naturally that we almost stop hearing them. "That matters." "What matters most?" "What's the matter?" "The heart of the matter." They have always been there, woven quietly into our language, as though they
Perhaps that is the invitation before us — not to become someone else, but to stand where the heart can recognize what the mind will gradually come to understand.
The Fear of Not Being Recognized There is a fear that quietly accompanies many lives. It does not always appear as fear. Sometimes it appears as striving. Sometimes as perfectionism. Sometimes as people-pleasing. Sometimes as loneliness. Sometimes as the feeling that one is somehow invisible, despite being seen every
Most people recognize prejudice when it is directed toward others. We can often see when a person is dismissed, judged unfairly, or reduced to a narrow understanding of who they are. We recognize the pain that comes from being misunderstood or treated as less than one's full humanity.