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Powerful reminders on Forgiveness

  I don’t particularly remember addressing forgiveness in the past, perhaps it is because I didn’t feel as if I truly grasped it for myself. Let alone actually forgive myself for things I have done knowingly and unknowingly that hurt or offended others. This time around feels  different.  And, what sums it up for me is […]

Tending to Our Compassionate Hearts

  It’s always interesting to read an article that I had written in a different space and time. And then to see where the same topic and intention holds true and where it feels different today.   Continuing in this month of exploring love, we arrive at compassion.   It’s important to start back at […]

Tending to Our Compassionate Hearts

                                          It’s always interesting to read an article that I had written in a different space and time. And then to see where the same topic and intention holds true and where it feels different […]

The Essence of Devotion

    By definition, devotion is “Love, loyalty, and enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause”.   At the end of last week’s class, which you can read in that blog here, I repeatedly heard myself using the words attention and presence. It reminded me of Mary Oliver’s quote that I have always adored, Attention is […]

Meeting the Home of Love, your Heart.

    You have a right to love and be loved.   This month of “Journey to the Peak,” February 2022, with Patrick Heffernan and myself, is about the peak pose of ‘love.’  I wanted to look at the scope of the whole month. What are different aspects of love? Where and how do we […]