Apprenticeship to Love, April 15, 2024 * Today’s questions: Consider: everything you are doing to do things right by another is also be being done by them, for you. What happens now? Are you BIG enough to hold that, too? * Today's suggested practice: Day 15 of this month&
Apprenticeship to Love, April 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are you protecting, holding tight, afraid to lose? What has it cost you, this thing, to have in your hands or heart? And what is costing you, to hold onto it? * Today's suggested practice: Day 14 of this
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Apprenticeship to Love, April 7, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are your goals? What is your purpose? And, —and this is so important— are you ready to sacrifice these for what is most important in your life? * Today's suggested practice: Day 7 of this month's practice,
Apprenticeship to Love, April 1, 2024 * Today’s questions: It's April Fools' Day: How & where & when do you feel foolish, knowing something in your heart, but your mind —and your friends, your family, the culture— telling you this is madness, foolishness? * Today's suggested
Apprenticeship to Love, March 31, 2024 * Today’s questions: If you are a husband or if you are a wife to a husband, who blessed this husbandry? Who led the way into and through a ritual of becoming worthy of this trial and its treasures? * Today's suggested practice:
Apprenticeship to Love, March 29, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you to obliterate yourself, and are you willing (you can never be ready for this; it really is too much) to step into that dark unknown? * Today's suggested practice: Day 29 of this month's
Apprenticeship to Love, March 28, 2024 * Today’s questions: Have you slowed enough to feel what’s true for you? Do you know how quietly you will have to walk, to know? * Today's suggested practice: Day 23 of this month's practice, to pause and feel the
Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What does it mean, to your body-mind, to "follow the follow?" Have you slowed enough, become patient enough, to feel into that energy or that person who would follow you, if you allowed yourself to be
Apprenticeship to Love, March 20, 2024 * Today’s questions: Who do you claim to see you? To hold and know and love you, just as you are? And whom do you claim to see, to hear, hold, and to love just as they are? * Today's suggested practice: Day
Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you? What frightening step forward that seems to welcome your annihilation? And what ritual can you prepare, to offer yourself as the gift you are to this moment of diminishing? * Today's suggested practice:
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 13, 2024 * Today’s questions: What habits close you to life? What rituals open you to life? How important is it, to be alive, to feel the joy —and the terror!— of life coursing through you? * Today's