I have vivid memories – not necessarily fond memories – of kneeling at my bedside with my family reciting a decade of the rosary each night before bed. As my interests in theology became more academic and intellectual in my 20’s and 30’s I fell...
Last week I got into my car and started crying for no explainable reason. Feeling like a total failure; a fraud. Like there’s something permanently wrong with me. Do you ever feel this way? If you do, I’m sorry. It sucks. But we don’t have to...
I’ve spent years helping people and organizations integrate meditation, wellness, and professional development. Every once in a while, someone objects that this cheapens the spiritual depth of these traditions. Or that it’s somehow “selling...
Yesterday morning I decided to practice yoga in my back yard. I felt my feet connected and rooted deeply to the earth. I felt gravity, sensing the gentle pull of gravity as nature’s way of holding me, connecting me to the sufficiency and abundance of nature. I...
My dad texted me yesterday, all excited because Phil Mickelson, at the age of 50, just became the oldest professional golfer to win a major tournament. And he attributed his success to meditation! “I’m working on it,” Mickelson said Friday....
The acceptance of our basic core of goodness is a quantum leap on the spiritual journey. – Thomas Keating Your basic core of goodness is the fundamental truth of who you are. It was placed there by God; and there is nothing you can do to get rid of it. No...
