by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Sep 22, 2013 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality, The Grace Filled Divorce
To say that one must live with uncertainty doesn’t begin to get at the tenuous, precarious nature of faith. The minute you begin to speak with certitude about God, he is gone. –Christian Wyman in “My Bright Abyss” Years ago a friend of mine once...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Sep 3, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
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,...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Jul 4, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ― John Muir I woke up this morning thinking about our upcoming trip to Mammoth Lakes up in the High Sierras. “I’m going to a cathedral!” I thought with a mixture of anticipation and relief. For years now my family...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | Jun 10, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
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,...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | May 28, 2012 | Newsletter, Slider, Spirituality
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...
by Melody Bacon, Ph.D | May 20, 2012 | Divorce, Newsletter, Slider
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...
