The Freedom of Interiority

The Freedom of Interiority

  Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -- C. G. Jung              Our society on the whole is an extraverted culture.  We look to the outside for wisdom, solutions, love, hope...

Live the Questions Now!

Live the Questions Now!

I beg you...to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you...

The Healing Power of Imagination

The Healing Power of Imagination

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. --Simone Weil The human mind is a wonderful thing.  What other mechanism can create something from nothing?  By what other means can you, in an instant, transport yourself to another place or...

INTO THE DEPTHS

INTO THE DEPTHS

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self – to the mediating intellect – as to verge close to being beyond description. -- William Styron in Darkness Visible             Depression is a word that has...

Burning the Candle at Both Ends

Burning the Candle at Both Ends

My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay The news of Whitney Houston’s recent death struck a chord with millions of people, perhaps most particularly those who...

Reflections on a New Year

Reflections on a New Year

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? --- every, every minute? -- Emily in "Our Town"   In Stephen King's new book, 11/22/63, the main character finds a portal that takes him back in time to the late 1950's.  There he encounters a world that...

Growing in Relationships

Growing in Relationships

Most of us were raised to think that relationships just happen and that somehow they just take care of themselves.  Nothing could be further from the truth!  Then again, some of us have heard that good relationships take work.  This is a bit more accurate but that...

The Freedom of Forgiveness

The Freedom of Forgiveness

Divorce brings with it a host of emotions -- anger, shame, hurt, sadness, betrayal.  I think the last one is perhaps one of the most difficult feelings to process.  When get married we stand before God and others, pledging our love to one another, we enter into a...

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