John O’Donohue was an inspiring Irish philosopher, poet, and mystic who passed away unexpectedly in early 2008. Much of his writing and poetry drew deeply from Irish Celtic perspectives, both in Christian and pre-Christian wisdom, while speaking to a widely diverse, modern audience. The following poem, from his book ‘To Bless the Spaces Between Us’ […]
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Creating a New Normal
In 1953, the French government decided to close their penal colony in Devil’s Island. All the prisoners were liberated from their cages and allowed to walk freely around the island. But to the authorities’ surprise, many of the prisoners returned to their cages to sleep each night. Why do you think they did that? Even […]
The Place We Call Home
We associate the word home with a place. Naturally, we think of home as somewhere we grew up in or a place we’d like to build or go back to someday. Yet at the same time, many of us are confined to our homes and unable to go anywhere else. But, what if home is simply a word that tries to describe […]
What Lies Ahead
For many of us, last year was a kind of “dress rehearsal.” We got to experience a taste of what life could be like if we chose to fully and wholeheartedly follow our hearts. Perhaps, it was a relationship you’ve been wanting to manifest for a while. Or maybe it was your ideal job, lifestyle, […]
Heart Start 2020 is Here!
Heart Start 2020 is my year-end reflection and planning guide to help you review and consciously complete this year and set a powerful new foundation to manifest your visions and goals in 2020. The idea is to set aside some quiet time for reflection so that you can tap into your heart-based power to start […]
Awakening the Christ Within
The Christ Consciousness is another name for the purest vibration of love and kindness that flows from the Heart of God to our human hearts. It has nothing to do with religion, New Age or spiritualism. It is the Universal, Cosmic, Consciousness or Intelligence of the purest vibration of love in action, which was fully […]
The Emperor, the King, and the Samurai
A few years ago I was facing a big, life-changing decision. After completing my studies and ending a three-year commitment to volunteer at a non-profit organization in South Africa, I needed to decide what to do next. I had complete freedom to do anything I wanted. I could leave South Africa, return to Los Angeles, go […]
Answering the Call to Adventure
Our lives are a series of neverending journeys of quest after quest. Deep within our hearts, we all seek experiences that will help us grow, expand, and become more of our true selves. Our journeys shape our characters, our characters, our choices, and our choices, our destiny. We go on all kinds of journeys… Physical […]
Sending Love to Someone you Love
Have you ever wanted to send love to someone but didn’t know how? Is there someone you deeply care for who needs emotional or spiritual support? Today, I’d like to share with you a simple technique you can use to radiate your heart’s energy out to another person. This process will work regardless of where […]
A Time to Grieve, and a Time to Heal
Grief: the deep and complicated process we all go through each time we lose a person, place, condition, or thing that we cherish, value, or love. It’s an unavoidable part of the human condition designed to help us become more loving, kind, and compassionate towards ourselves and others. Having gone through so many cycles of […]
Unpacking Your Heart
There’s a magic that happens when you start facing the fear of being yourself and begin to fully and unconditionally accept yourself as you truly are. There’s a lightness you feel inside when you give yourself permission to ‘unpack’ your heart and acknowledge to yourself and others your own inauthenticities, mistakes, flaws, dualities, brokenness, and […]
Necessary Endings
For a rose bush to achieve its highest potential of beauty, fragrance, and growth, a good gardener knows that it must be carefully trimmed. Having a clear vision of what a beautiful bush looks like, the gardener prunes the rose bush when: 1) the plant produces more flower buds than it can sustain, 2) parts […]