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Last week, I found myself at a table with two other parents like myself, who have children with special educational needs. We were talking about how something so small--a smile, a kiss, the meeting of eyes--can take on immense importance when it is a rarity. While we were sitting there, one of my friends got …
By Elana Hernon It is in our culture and ideas in Western medicine that if something is a problem, if you can, you can cut it out. This thinking is also applied to many areas of our lives. For instance, think about ego. It is common to think that ego comes between yourself and God …
Why you have been placed with the individuals that surround you in your lifetime, if not for your own and for their growth and greatest joy and perfection as souls? This is the goal of all existence, to fill ourselves with the joy and bliss of being. To know the absolute is to limit; but …
Emotions are like a storm, but you are the sea, wide, endless and full to the depths. There is motion at the surface and raindrops may pelt at the waters, but underneath the outer layers is a teeming world, filled with secret, vibrant life. There is a calm, a swaying to beautiful subterranean undersea music, …
There’s a line in a song that I have always remembered—it goes, “Mother, I’m cut at the root like a weed ‘cause there’s no-one to hear my small story.” For me, that sums up a feeling that’s haunted me for years, of being small and of needing to shout in order to make myself heard …
The last two weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about my life, the choices I’ve made and why everything has come together as it has. A conversation a week ago drove it all home: showed me that all the events I’ve lived, all the people I’ve come into contact with and the relationships that have …
Honest Spirituality. 