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 …
My Experience with Enlightenment
By Pauline H I happily and gratefully turned 50 years young last year. For many years I didn't even believe I deserved to be here. I struggled and perservered through the darkness to find that we all are love and light, nothing less. Since my enlightenment experience I have personally experienced a profound life-changing miracle, …
How Do Old Patterns Hold Us Back?
Many years ago, I woke up one night at 4 am with the realization that I felt an incredible sense of abandonment. I started scanning back and back through my life, trying to figure out when it first manifested itself, and I felt myself going back to being a newborn. I have never had conscious …
Who Cares?
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 Journey Begins
All of my life, there was one thing I promised myself I would never be: mediocre. Maybe I wouldn’t be Shakespeare or Brad Pitt or Helen of Troy, but I’d be interesting and have something to say. No dull life of a housewife for me: I would travel, read literature, write and befriend interesting people. …
