Category: Listening

On Defensiveness: More Straw for an Even Bigger Fire

In my last post I men­tioned the phrase “straw for the fire” as hav­ing emerged dur­ing a med­i­ta­tion. Since then I have become increas­ing­ly aware of some­thing with­in that con­tin­ues to grow around these lines. Most­ly this: that every con­cept of self, every cher­ished belief, and cer­tain­ly all absolutes are so much straw, as well.… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Defen­sive­ness: More Straw for an Even Big­ger Fire

Talking about Ourselves

Recent­ly, I was tagged by Eve­lyn Rodriguez to share five things about myself oth­ers don’t know. I had been tagged pre­vi­ous­ly, how­ev­er, and had already respond­ed. But think­ing about Eve­lyn’s tag some­how remind­ed me of anoth­er dis­clo­sure “game” I once played. Here’s how it worked: five peo­ple sat togeth­er in a cir­cle with a facil­i­ta­tor.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Talk­ing about Ourselves

The River Knows Everything

Hear Dan read this post. One of the most pow­er­ful pas­sages in Her­mann Hes­se’s clas­sic spir­i­tu­al tale, Sid­dhartha, goes like this: I am only a fer­ry­man and it is my task to take peo­ple across and to all of them my riv­er has been noth­ing but a hin­drance on their jour­ney. They have trav­eled for mon­ey and busi­ness, to wed­dings and on pil­grim­ages;… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Riv­er Knows Everything