In Zen Buddhism there is a quote that heaven and hell are one tenth of an inch apart. The back and forth of this particular oscillation is all so familiar to me.

If there is a more corrosive force on the soul than defiance, I do not know of it. A choice to be argumentative, prickly, self-righteous, dismissive and convinced of one’s “rightness” is a hard way to go. Either we know someone like this – or we are this. For many...

We declared war on ourselves long ago. While our souls are hard-wired for connection and growth, we nonetheless build ramparts that guard our tender hearts (and often rightly so as people often prove unworthy of our trust, randomly trampling our hearts). We are tribal by nature and need our people,...

Ruminate on one of your primary relationships and the last unkind thing that you may have said to them, or they to you, the words that fester still, just there under the skin. Unfinished business. It accumulates in relationships to such heights that we stare up at it in hopelessness,...

It would seem that my friend Burt is one of 113 souls in totality who walk the earth today having experienced the perfect childhood. Or so he claims. One of the fortunate few. No trauma, drama, disfunction junction, or the hot and steamy breath of complex PTSD on his neck....

The reference does not pertain to interruption of the fornication. If you weren’t assuming that, then points for you. No, breaking intimacy is far more grievous, a relationship serial-killer and a great cause of heartbreak and anguish. Intimacy. Think of wonderous, fragile moments of lofty emotional connection where the bond...

Hey! Over here. It is not easy getting your attention and yes it is I, your higher self. The ethereal one watching over you. The small still voice murmuring truth in your ear, and stating that there is so much more to you than you know. Your glorious, highest self,...