“Not fitting in” is a good thing. It might feel painful, but it means that you’re creating something bigger. A visionary path is invisible to ordinary eyesight. We can only see it with our inner eyes. Without a vision, it’s easy to spend all our time reacting to and attempting to solve an endless array [ Read more … ]
Inspiration
An instant shift and healing
When I was 26, I was involved in a head-on collision on a rural highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I was flown by air ambulance to the Mayo clinic in Minnesota. I had fractured T-12 and displaced my spinal chord by 40 degrees. The doctors at the Mayo Clinic gave me less than [ Read more … ]
Losing my mother
My mother passed away on August 4th and I wish I could do it all over again. When I received the call at the hotel in the middle of the night, I rushed over to the nursing home. I sat down by her bed and didn’t know what to do. I wasn’t sure how long [ Read more … ]
Beauty will save the world
Dostoevsky said “Beauty will save the world.” He didn’t mean surface beauty. He meant poetic beauty. Or as James Hillmans says: “the way in which the Gods touch our senses, reach the heart and attract us into life.” That kind of beauty will save the world.
Sacred power: Entering the realm of the non-ordinary
I used to think the mistakes I’d made had ruined my life. I walked away when a major publisher wanted to publish Getting Messy in a different format. I lost an inheritance by investing in questionable stock purchases. I let a special person get away. I failed to plan ahead. And so on. But by [ Read more … ]
