May 27, 2014
I got pretty crabby last week. I didn’t like being 66 years old. I didn’t like that I’ve gained weight. I didn’t like not knowing what the rest of my life would look like. I didn’t like not having enough money. I didn’t like much of...
Jun 5, 2014
Last week I mentioned the Breath and Water Club newsletter. Some of you don’t go back that far, and you wondered what it was. (I started it in 2004, and it ran for 6 years before it morphed into Tenacity Notes.) I’ve moved the back issues of the Breath and...
Jun 5, 2014
Note: This isn’t an actual Tenacity Notes, but I put it here so I could link to it on Facebook. Read it. You’ll understand. This is an excerpt from a Breath and Water Club newsletter, July 2005. I was teaching about gratitude at a recent class. I suggested...
Jun 23, 2014
I haven’t written for a while because I didn’t know what to write. What could I say? That I fail more than I succeed at radiating love? That’s the truth. I return, again and again and again, to the practice of radiating love. But I don’t seem...
Jul 1, 2014
Love is such an imprecise word. I was wondering if I could parse it out a bit, perhaps identify various aspects of love. Once I began listing them, I realized they are not so much aspects as they are manifestations of love. Compassion, empathy, appreciation, wonder,...
Jul 17, 2014
Other manifestations of love, from readers: courage, optimism, awe, and remember that love is without conditions — no ifs, ands, or buts. The reason I began listing manifestations of love is because it was easier than describing the physical, felt experience of...
Jul 25, 2014
Remember, you radiate love from, not to. Do you remember that old New Age practice of surrounding other people in White Light? It said: Do you know someone who needs healing? Are you having a conflict with someone? Simply imagine them surrounded in White Light. It is...
Aug 4, 2014
A reader asks: Can I really learn to radiate love and be at peace? I ask: How do I love someone who did something despicable? This whole love thing might just be too hard! Why is it my path? Why did I choose it? Why did it choose me? But none of that really matters....
Aug 12, 2014
If love is my path, my next step is surely to feel love for those I cannot love. Oh dear. Every now and then recently, I am surprised by a vision of being surrounded by people I cannot love. I stand on my path of love, and I am encircled by these people. Despicable...
Aug 21, 2014
Many of you wrote to me about my attempt to love someone I cannot love. All of you said something on the order of: the one you cannot love is an aspect of you. I understand that to mean that the one I cannot love is a mirror; that if I look at the quality I despise in...