Love and Presence
For Nepal, and for All Who Suffer
A quiet meditation for Nepal, Tibet and all those touched by loss — a reflection on grief, compassion, silence, and the mystery that holds us when words are no longer enough.
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Love and Presence
The Language of The Heart
Silence is not the absence of meaning—it is the place beneath meaning, where truth does not need to prove itself... On stillness, presence, and the language beneath words.
Love and Presence
Never Put Them Out of Your Heart
This is a reflection on the quiet discipline of keeping the heart open, even when love must take a different form.
Love and Presence
A Guided Contemplation on Suffering, Survival, and Being There for One Another.
This contemplation explores the quiet power of presence: how, in the midst of suffering, simply being there for one another can become an expression of love.
Love and Presence
Blessing
A brief blessing for the places in us that still remember fear—and for the love that has never left us.
Poems, Quotes and Parables
Unending Love
A small remembrance of why I continue to write and record: that beneath all we have come to believe ourselves to be, there remains a love beyond measure.
Love Notes
Love Notes XLII
When love enters what we do, effort becomes devotion. What might have felt like obligation becomes something freely given—a quiet offering of ourselves to the moment.
Field Notes
The Aurora House
At the Aurora House, healing was not about fixing what was broken, but creating the safety in which what had always been whole could emerge. It was a living laboratory of body, breath, grief, spirit, and the mysterious intelligence that leads us home.
Poems, Quotes and Parables
The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry
When the mind is burdened by fear and the future feels uncertain, Wendell Berry invites us back to the quiet wisdom of the natural world, where, for a moment, we remember what peace feels like.
Field Notes
The Architecture of Safety: In Healing.
Many healing paths focus on transformation, yet overlook something essential: the ego structure and its defenses cannot truly surrender and transcend until it feels safe.
Poems, Quotes and Parables
Wild Geese - Mary Oliver
A poem of belonging, longing, and the wild grace of being alive. Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese reminds us that we need not earn our place in this world—we need only listen for the call that has been there all along.
Contemplations
Nothing Is Missing In Silence.
In silence, nothing is missing. Nothing needs to be found, repaired, or completed. And here, beneath all the noise of wanting and becoming, love reveals itself—quiet, whole, and unadulterated.