“The receptive is a phenomenal power–it attracts, generates, it sets the whole dance in motion. In the Hindu tradition, divinity is symbolized by a yoni, surrounding a lingam. The yoni draws the lingam in just as much as the lingam thrusts. You need both. Receptive energy is magnetic. That is how it initiates–it draws what…
DetailsIn any relationship there are at a minimum two people. While it may be an oversimplification, in general one of those two people will have been the seeker and the other will have been the sought. These categories are less about the act of looking for someone to be in relationship with or the willingness…
DetailsOn the one hand, no opportunity is truly lost. The specifics may change, the timing, but if it’s something you really want, it doesn’t matter that you didn’t get there 10 minutes ago or 10 years ago, you can have it now. Yes, it will look different than it would have before, but you are…
DetailsIt doesn’t matter how much it’s for our own good, how much good it does us and those around us, sometimes we just need to break free of the routine. Most people complain about the routine when it’s rubbing them the wrong way. When it’s strangling them, keeping them from being who they want to…
DetailsStartracks. Spiral nebulae. Craters of the moon. She lets herself fall. She falls into the room of her wants. The room where the demands of women are endless. Where her voice has endlessly demanded her to go. This room which reveals her. Where she is clumsy again. Where she is awkward in her grown-up clothing. …
DetailsAt some point, now or later, you’re going to have to risk BEING YOU in order to find out who that really is. Not the conditioned you, not the “you” you’ve been taught to believe you are, who you really are. And this perhaps will be the scariest, the most loving, the most rewarding thing…
DetailsPart of what draws people to a spiritual life is a feeling that they need to do something or be something. It’s like a religious calling, but less well defined or less structured. And most of us want to know what that calling is and want to achieve it the best way we can. This…
DetailsSo we’re nearing the end of the first 1/3 of Horse’s year. It’s a good time to look back and get an idea of how things have changed from the New Year until now. My sister taught me something years ago and it has stuck with me, although I usually apply it in way I…
DetailsOver the past 9 months or so, as I’ve been researching about Akasha and the Akashic records for a book I’ll be writing, I’ve been studying the Kabbalah. Yes, they are connected. 🙂 Plus I’ll hopefully be putting out a class on Kabbalah for DailyOm.com sometime this year. Sooner rather than later, but I still…
DetailsMy first contact with meditation was the classic “sit and clear your mind.” I was vague on what this was supposed to do for me other than it was necessary for spiritual practice and would be calming. Somehow it was supposed to lead me to enlightenment but that was many levels of spirituality later. The…
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