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Goodwill Meditation: The Devotional Art of Metta

When grief for the world feels unbearable, when our own wounds close the heart, when despair whispers that nothing can heal—this is the moment for Metta. Metta, often translated as “loving-kindness” or “goodwill,” is one of humanity’s…
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A Gentle Wake-Up: The Morning Dance

Most programs for health and wellness start outside-in. They give us systems to follow, boxes to check, routines to force ourselves into. For many women—especially those living with chronic illness or burnout—that approach can feel like…
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You Are Not the Doer

Notes from Inside a Life After more than fifty years of trying to steer this life, I’ve come to a quiet and unshakable conclusion: I’m not the one driving. This isn’t a belief. It’s an observation. After a long enough time…

My Path of Prayer

My mom taught me several forms of healing prayer from a young age to manage different ongoing health issues.  She told me around 3-4 that I could ask for what I needed and would be given help. So I never questioned. That's what I did,…

How to Pray in Faith Transition

Prayer takes many forms, but at its core, it is an intentional act of putting our focused attention toward something uplifting—it's an act of lifting up the gaze of our heart. When we are feeling doubt, confusion, or religious betrayal,…

The Marketing Plan of Disconnection

Along with the tsunami of information and translations coming to us over the past 10-20 years, we’ve also learned more and more of our history. We can now see with a wider lens beyond our own culture of origin and realize no one tradition…

What is Prayer?

Prayer is not an act of belief, nor is it necessarily even an act of words.  It is an act of attention.  There are many forms of prayer in every tradition throughout history. Anciently, prayer was a form of “communion,”…

What is Contemplative Prayer?

What is Contemplative Prayer? Contemplative prayer is like when you open your mouth and sit back at the dentist.  You try to relax, you understand that something is being done to you by a considerate, skilled being that understands…

What is the Inner Path?

All of the traditions studied and presented here essentially share one assumption—that while humans enjoy the free will to pursue their desires and avoid the things they don't want as they wish—this exercise will ultimately end in a realization…

Aggregators to the Rescue!

A revolution in human consciousness is happening right now—can you feel it? We live in a very exciting time of change, and some wonderfully illuminating discoveries are happening on the inner landscape of humanity right now that will…