Reduced or Realigned?
Right now life is reduced to the essentials: to caring for loved ones, finding food, getting exercise without being with other people, staying well, celebrating those…
How long before we “get it?”
There are many secret teachings in Taoism, Tai Chi and Qigong that the masters only share with their most dedicated adepts. But the biggest secret…
Engaging Daily in the Practice of Presence
Why, you might ask, is daily work necessary in order to be who I am? Well, for a lot of people it’s enough to go to…
James Hollis on our Appointment with the Soul
Our gift to the world, according to Jungian analyst James Hollis, is “to return to the task of being who we are.” Such a super-effort can…
A Second Brain…
Scientific alert! Wonderful news about science’s discovery of what many knew from experience, picked up and just republished on JDShares, my friends. We are indeed, as…
Whose energy am I using?
Have you ever had a difficult interaction where you found yourself overreacting, moving quickly from irritation to anger? Or instead of acknowledging your differences, you harshly judged…
“There is no wealth but life”
Are you muttering a sarcastic comment as you read this quote from 19th century art critic John Ruskin? It’s undoubtedly true that life could be a…
