Bear holding the bouquet of Lotus-dendron is an essential identity. This Inspired Self resists being contained in language. It’s not a behavior, not an activity, not a habit, not a job or even a career, not a role or an obligation or an expectation and insight. Putting labels or even words to it is a […]
Love Today fox is awakened into the spirit of care, which grows tendrils everywhere and has eventual blooms of sacred devotion. Fox’s intuition is that Love is the creative view that encompasses and integrates the world. Play Today fox is awakened into Play, an elemental energy, the urge to cavort, to not be so damn […]
There are times I think it might be preferable to be a machine, a robot, an android. Such beings (or non-beings) are able to evaluate at length what appears to be in front of them, set an agenda that will be followed unvaryingly. They stay narrowly focused on things, as long as their intellect deems […]
Work Bears have done their own Work which is separate yet intertwined with relational Work. They have learned to compassionately hold their own pain and self-deception. And, so, in the dance of any one day, they are less dependent on practiced steps, less reliant on other bears. Power Awakened from slumber, bears are living in […]
Power The bears ascend with their heartbeats embodied in Nature. They give themselves to the Beauty all around and rise above into something greater, though–wise bears–they don’t generally try to put this into words. Play The past trails off into the infinite unknown. The future trails off into an equally infinite unknown. But the bears […]
Are you feeling unseen? Isn’t it astonishing that there are partners who will stay with those who are prickly and defensive? Those who regularly take out their weapons and spit out their resentments? Those who are puffed up in their own grandiose reflections? Who are filled with their own cleverness and enamored of their successes? […]
What is narcissism? I suspect most of us have an internal part (ego-state) that is on the hunt in the external world for self-love, seeking outward for inner acceptance. If we give full reign to this impulse, we tend to form a pathological relationship with whatever we seek, whatever we can catch or can subdue, […]
In the Greek myth, Narcissus cannot look deeply into his reflection or he will encounter the truth that he wants desperately to avoid. He is caught, pushed and pulled, and mesmerized. He becomes enamored of the mirrored surface (it is the only way to feel loved). I am what I do. I am what I […]