Veil Series :: Untangling a knot
In our veil metaphor for the patterns our thoughts take, sometimes we discover tight knots. Here’s how to loosen them up and discover joy where there had been only pain.
Category: self-exploration
The reviews for my new book are coming in!
A simple, profound gift to oneself“Although a short book, Asking In is not to be read through cover to cover
The Sorting Room
In our home there is a room off the garage that I recently designated ‘The Sorting Room’. That’s a fancy
A grain of salt, a kernel of truth
The expression ‘take what you hear with a grain of salt’ reminds me to allow for the very likely possibility
Inquiry Series: Question #5
In this inquiry series, we’ve practiced using questions that help us deal skillfully with what arises in our experience: What
Cultivating with the core insights
In exploring the question What am I cultivating here? we have been working with a gardening analogy. In this analogy
Cultivating your chosen quality with wise inquiry
If you did last week’s exercise, then hopefully you chose one quality that you feel needs cultivation right now. (If
The Seed Catalog
As we continue our exploration of the valuable question ‘What am I cultivating here?’, wouldn’t it be nice to have
This little light of mine
Here we are in the deepest darkness of the year. Most of us have challenging relationships with darkness. Why? Our
Preferences II :: Seeing for ourselves
In the last blog post we looked at how we can be imprisoned by our preferences. I suggested we notice
