Inward Grace

09/18/2025

09/17/2025

THE CALL TO HEALING

When our childhood wounds remain unprocessed, when we bury painful feelings and live as a false self in the world, no matter how successful or famous or powerful or “enlightened” we are, those wounds end up dictating our speech and actions from their dark home deep within the unconscious. And we end up becoming violent, manipulative and dishonest to others and to ourselves.

The journey of healing will take great courage! We will be asked to invite excruciatingly uncomfortable feelings back into the light of conscious awareness.

As we heal, we may feel more vulnerable than ever. More unsafe than ever. More angry than ever. More powerful and powerless, hopeful and hopeless than ever, as unbearable material finally becomes bearable in the holding field of Presence. But now, at least, we are FEELING these feelings. So they can be met, and owned, and embraced, and accepted, and digested. And no longer acted out on others. No longer vomited out unconsciously into the world.

No matter how spiritual or liberated or woke we think we are, no matter how much effort we have put into creating a false “me”, no matter how much we believe we have transcended our issues, we just cannot ignore the cry of our humanness any longer. Our sensitivity, our bodies and our feelings, our doubts, our exquisite vulnerability and the glory and wisdom of the feminine - we must honour these things now, more than ever.

- Jeff Foster

08/26/2025

Grace abounds all around us. Simply see, hear, and speak from and with your heart. All shall be well, all shall be well.

08/20/2025

"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."

—Hermann Hesse

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07/31/2025

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07/29/2025

There is a time to act, and a time to wait, to listen, to observe. Then understanding and clarity can grow. From understanding, action arises that is purposeful, firm, and powerful.

~ Charles Eisenstein

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07/26/2025

To feel as if you belong is one of the great triumphs of human existence — and especially to sustain a life of belonging and to invite others into that has always been acknowledged as one of the great achievements of human existence.

But it’s interesting to think that our vulnerabilities, our sense of slight woundedness around not belonging is actually one of our core competencies; that though the crow is just itself and the stone is just itself and the mountain is just itself, and the cloud, and the sky is just itself — we are the one part of creation that knows what it’s like to live in exile, and that the ability to turn your face towards home is one of the great human endeavors and the great human stories.

~ David Whyte