Reflections
Sensitivity, Sensibility and Respect
I can always get to the point in any given interaction, personal or in observing others, when three words strike me-sensitivity, sensibility and respect. The quality of the first is in thinking before we speak. It is being aware and responsive to another person’s point of view. The second, similar but adding more discernment to…
Read Full PostWhy We Don’t Listen To Ourselves
I am painfully aware of how often I hear “I knew” this or that, “I distinctly felt” a particular way about something ….but I chose to not heed that warning or intuition and (therefore) lived to regret it. I myself have had this experience too many times. And no matter how often it occurs, followed by…
Read Full PostWhat About Common Sense?
From where I sit, particularly from a spiritual point of view, separation of any kind is an illlusion. It is a thought of the ego, intended to cause dissonance. We align oursleves with one side or another and dig in our heels. The consequent polarity is divisive and hurtful to us as a community, as…
Read Full PostLove
Love is such a beautiful aspect of our human experience, why is it that so often we are too quick to push it into the background, giving “preference” to thoughts and behavior that have little to do with this awesome birthright-to remain and express from that space. So often we are judging and criticizing and…
Read Full PostWe Spiritual Beings
I just can’t help commenting on what is happening in our national discourse. The vitriol and lack of civility that we are showcasing to our own people and the world at large is at least unfortunate and at most shameful. In our humanness, I understand our fallibility, but mostly I hold out hope that some…
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