Field Notes
As with all my work, this piece arises from decades of lived experience. I have been writing it, in one form or another, for many years—returning to it, adding to it, refining it, and allowing it to deepen as life itself has unfolded.
Meditation
There are words that do not merely speak, they remember.
Meditation
A meditation for calming the nervous system, restoring a sense of safety, and resting in the quiet presence of love.
Contemplations
May a small circle of safety find you, even if it is only the space of one breath.
Podcast
What does it mean to see the sacred everywhere when the world contains so much suffering? Perhaps the sacred is not always what is happening, but what suffering cannot extinguish.
Contemplations
We don’t learn to see the sacred everywhere by making everything sacred. We learn by noticing that it was never absent.
Podcast
At the heart of this poem is the stripping away of every identity: religion, geography, body, soul, origin — even the separate “I.” What remains is the Beloved: the indivisible reality beneath all forms, the ground to which we all belong.
Sound is never merely heard. It is relationship made audible. Every tone, every voice, and every silence shapes the nervous system, inviting us either to soften into presence or prepare for danger.
Perhaps we are not being asked to become harder. Perhaps we are being asked to become strong enough to remain loving.
The body falls silent. The senses report an ending. And yet—something remains, untouched.
Download this please and connect energetically every day at 1000 Pacific from wherever you are. Of course this mediation can be practiced at any time of the day or night also....The earth needs your light... Settle into the quiet beneath the sternum, lengthen the breath, and rest in the
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Sound is never merely heard. It is relationship made audible. Every tone, every voice, and every silence shapes the nervous system, inviting us either to soften into presence or prepare for danger.
A meditation for those moving through grief—not to escape sorrow, but to enter it gently enough to discover the stillness, presence, and deeper ground that loss cannot take away.
Hope is not the denial of pain, nor the insistence that everything will turn out as we wish. It is the quiet thread within us that remains when certainty disappears—the willingness to stay open, to take one more breath, and to trust that life has not abandoned us.
Grief is the shape love takes when something we cherish can no longer remain as it was. It does not mean love has disappeared—only that its form has changed.
Perhaps the deepest wound is the belief that we have become separated from love. Healing begins in remembering that we never truly were.
Some souls touch our lives only briefly, yet leave behind something quiet and unmistakable. A few words for Mark, a gentle soul whose path crossed mine for a little while—and whose passing deserves a moment of tenderness, remembrance, and peace.
When the noise within us begins to quiet, we discover that the world has been waiting in silence too. In that meeting, something timeless reveals itself—not as an answer, but as a truth already known.
What if nothing ever truly leaves Love—and what we call separation is only an appearance that, in time, must give way?
August 22nd 2013 The ancient practice of gesture, energy, grounding, and embodied awareness ES Weightless Moments : Mathilda Skonare Karlsson0:00/191.7841× For many people, the word mudra immediately brings to mind someone sitting in meditation, perhaps cross-legged, with the thumb and forefinger gently touching. That is certainly a
There is a kind of knowing that appears only when nothing is being added. In the quiet spaces between thought, word, and movement, something deeper begins to speak.
Sometimes love does not arrive as a grand gesture. Sometimes it is simply a pot of rice, a pair of hands, and someone doing what they can with what they have. Perhaps this is what holiness looks like when it becomes ordinary.
The mystery that is vast enough to hold both the horror and the love without having to explain either away.
