Beautiful Words

05/13/2026

I remember living at Gampo Abbey when Pema Chodron showed up. As she arrived an intense double rainbow appeared. A nun, a friend of mine, said “I don’t like the woman but this happens every time.” I knew my friend had a bit of conflict with Pema Chodron. So that made me laugh, but also I was just in awe. The double rainbow happens every time she shows up?! Then we entered into Yarne, an intensive 7 week meditation retreat mostly in silence. Anyway, some words from one of my teachers. May peace prevail on earth. May the stupidity of governments working toward war and causing harm just stop, now!

05/11/2026

As a clinical social worker, I agree.

02/03/2026

10/14/2025

Balance is always key though.

10/02/2025

Ram Dass once said,

“The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being.”

Forgiveness lives in that being.
It’s not something you can force.
Not something you can manufacture with words.
It arrives, if it arrives, like a slow dawn breaking over years of night.

We think forgiveness means excusing.
We think it means pretending it didn’t hurt.
We think it means saying, It’s okay, when it wasn’t.

But real forgiveness is different.
It’s not about forgetting.
It’s not about letting someone off the hook.
It’s about setting yourself free from carrying the hook inside your own heart.

Because the truth is, resentment is heavy.
It eats away at you long after the other person is gone.
It tightens your chest.
It steals your breath.
It builds walls where you wanted doors.

Forgiveness isn’t about them.
It’s about you...

06/21/2025

Connecting with Richard Swartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems therapy.

06/06/2025

“Self-evaluation and self-criticism are, basically, neurotic tendencies which derive from our not having enough confidence in ourselves, confidence in the sense of seeing what we are, knowing what we are, knowing that we can afford to open. We can afford to surrender that raw and rugged neurotic quality of self and step out of fascination, step out of preconceived ideas.” Chogyam Trungpa