Category Archives: Coherence

Happiness is a decision for which we are responsible. It is not more complex than that. We don’t need to fix anything outside of us; we have to let go of the idea that anything outside of us can be fixed. None of that is the problem. Our work as students of A Course inContinue reading “The Decision to be Happy”

November frost on mostly empty gardens lingers past noon. Bare maple trees scratch deep gray skies. At night I listen to owls on the other side of the river and by day wait for whatever the cold and early dark of winter will bring. The mind turns to gratefulness. Who will teach us how toContinue reading “November Notes on Gratitude”

You are enough. You are okay – you are more than okay. I don’t mean that in an ACIM-theological way – like saying, yeah, the embodied egoic you sucks but the real you is enough. I mean rather that when you’re out walking and pause beneath a tree, the tree is grateful. I mean thatContinue reading “You and Your Perfection”

A cup of coffee or a single walk can change our life forever. One glance from a brother or sister who sees us without any projection of guilt, theirs or ours, is perfect healing. Only after it is given to us can we offer it to others. One way to understand our role as studentsContinue reading “Notes at Summer’s End”

In a newsletter today I wrote about the relationship between attention and Love. You can sign up here if you like. I want to think out loud here a bit more about this. Healing and awakening are both implicated in it. In his notebooks, Paul Brunton said that misunderstandings about our identity – i.e., ourContinue reading “Between Attention and Love, This Love”

I wrote a newsletter today – first in months – about how projection is a denial of the fact that we are creations of God, who is Love, and Who is not mocked. The clarity of this is blinding, and we tend to look away. You can sign up here, if you are interested. AContinue reading “Mid-Summer Notes on Love”