For many years, my most persistent experience of sitting meditation consisted of futile attempts to stop thinking followed by my chin landing repeatedly on my chest, fairly often accompanied by drooling on my meditation shawl. A bobble-head doll that leaked -- nothing...

As I continue to pay off more and more financial debt from my past along with deepening the conscious feelings of self-love, my vision for recognizing support gets clearer, and perhaps more clearly stated; as I continue to allow Universal Energy Flow to come into my life by opening the...

People do things. Often enough people do things I don't like. I used to give a lot of attention to internally grumbling about all the things I would think people were doing, why they shouldn't, and what they should be doing instead.

One day a coconut hit me on the...

Why does confidence seem so easy for some and yet so completely elusive for others?

Are the people we see as confident truly standing deep and firm in their own boots?

How do the seeds of confidence get planted, nurtured, and radically expanded?

First off, let's dispel the tidy...

Not too long ago I tweeted, "When I know what I'm saying 'Yes' to, it's easy to say no."

Sacred. Profane. What do these words really mean? Is it about standing on some moral higher ground that assures belonging, safety, and the necessities of life? Paying homage to some being...

For countless hours of innumerable days of many months over nearly ten years I had a sanctuary, a home-away-from home In Los Angeles. It went by the name of Elixir, and it lived on a quiet section of Melrose Avenue near the soon-to-be extinct Bodhi Tree Bookstore.

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Today I write about suffering. Not because I want to, but because I must. I am compelled. It's not because suffering has some gritty promise of being somehow more interesting.

Most days, the zone between the stored, unprocessed grief, anger, fear, and sadness the largest percentage of the world...

There are days like this one where I'm at a complete loss for how to rationalize the gluttonously nasty things human beings do to one another and our habitat on this planet. It seems like destruction is a publicly traded commodity. Kindness has become woo-woo. Therapy, a way to band-aid...

How many of you remember that old commercial in the late 70's/early 80's:

"How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie-roll pop?"

If I had a dollar for every time my mind had that kind of thought around my growth process, I'd be sitting...

Are addicts only people sitting in twelve-step meetings or those waiting for life to get dark enough to start needing them?

I won't pretend to have the definitive answers on this topic.

I will say that I've gotten better at asking really good questions. Questions that don't just...

"That by which we fall is that by which we rise."
~ Kularnava Tantra

In times of increased energy; during a Full Moon or Eclipse, at the height of great emotion, on the heels of a powerful spiritual experience or awakening, when something we believe to be...

I was preparing to lead a breathworkshop at my healing space here in West Hollywood recently, and got inspired to download some new (new to my current iPod) music to to use in the work. And I ended up creating a playlist, which I haven't done in about four years...a...

I'm not exactly card-carrying with any affiliation or membership these days. Less and less it the need to belong and be accepted showing itself around my connection with any groups. As I find more and more freedom in my Heart through self-love, I'm not interested in finding a glamorous group...