Meditations for the Heart, Mind, and Spirit

Not only connection but disconnection is vital to experience. If we do not effectively disconnect often enough from devices, demands, and those identities we inhabit much of the time, we may very well come to forget the more that we are—the vast, unrealized potentialities within us, our essential orientation “toward a plus factor in existence,” as Jack Finegan once put it, and the power we each possess to become, beyond any personal prisons that cage us. There is thunder in o

Compassion is not first and foremost about loving others or even oneself but suffering—from the Latin compassio meaning to “suffer with”—and as such is one of the most beautiful qualities of our humanity. Before any would-be efforts to fix a situation, and prior to many well-intentioned words that would likely fall flat anyway, true compassion appears originally as a form of presence, the desire to be with another suffering, to feel, as much as one can from afar, the heartach

Equanimity is not zen but zombie-like, a state of inner calm and composure at the ghastly cost of authentic being and becoming...

Intimacy is tender immersion, in a moment, a place, a relation; with or without love, with or without intention, but always through a connection luring us to the deep...

Activities elicit identities. While working, a professional demeanor, keenly attuned to rules of etiquette, ethics, propriety, and the like. While under the covers with a lover, a different animal emerges, sensual and primal, carnal and tactile. While walking alone on the beach, a more pensive side perhaps, questioning, wondering. While enjoying a meal with good friends, a fun-loving one may come to the fore, toying and teasing, joking and jesting, a child within now out to p