Posted August 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Behind Every Behavior Is A Positive Intention

…our culture, and also a lot of psychotherapies, demonized various parts of us, and think they are what they seem to be— which never turns out to be the truth.

~Richard “Dick” Schwartz No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

One of the presuppositions of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) […]

Posted May 1, 2021 in Monthly News

Metaphorical Magic

A friend shared a page from The Light of Discovery, by Toni Packer. Toni Packer was a teacher of “meditative inquiry”, and the founder of Springwater Center. Packer was a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism, and was previously in line to be the successor of Phillip Kapleau at the Rochester […]

Posted May 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Willingness to Change

“Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.”

Carlsbad, California, June 2006, “The Scariest Thing,”, AA Grapevine

Accepting life right now means adapting to a lot of change. By the first of June, in the past many years, I would have for a couple of months been comfortably settled […]

Posted February 29, 2020 in Monthly News

Seeds of Light

Deep Spring Center Thought for Today Spread your love like grass seed. Move out. Don’t be afraid of potentially negative situations. See each as a place to grow more flowers, to cast your inner seeds out on this now fertile soil. For as this time of transition draws nearer, the soil is increasingly fertile. So […]

Posted November 28, 2017 in Monthly News

The Power of Your Light

In the U.S. December is considered a month of darkness. The days are short, the skies are often gray, and the warmth is ebbing. This is all going on in the external world, so we light candles, stoke the fire, and enjoy a cup of hot tea. Of course, these are also part of the […]

Posted December 31, 2016 in Monthly News

Let's Laugh

After having my blood pressure be relatively stable since August after it spiked in May of this year, it spiked again last week. I am once again surrendering to the release of old emotional patterns. (You may appreciate reading my earlier blog post if this is news to you: Three Days Without Anxiety Medication.)

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Posted September 30, 2016 in Monthly News

Willingness to Learn

“If you’re not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you’re determined to learn, no one can stop you.” ~ Author unknown quotelicious.com (website)

When I read this opening quotation in my friend David Bloyd’s thought for the day, I resonated deeply with the implication. Reading on, I saw this newsletter […]

Posted June 30, 2016 in Monthly News

Surrender the Fear

“The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that’s what life is.” Abraham-Hicks Excerpted from: Syracuse, NY on October 17, 1996

On the afternoon of June 2, my sister called to break the news that the office space we share had […]