Dark Nights of the Soul

You Cannot Rush the Soul's Growth

Just like we cannot pry a seed open to gather the bloom, just like we cannot break into a cocoon and demand a butterfly…we cannot rush...

The Veil is Thinning

Whenever our world is turned upside down, wherever there is a wound, or things go black and all is unknown, the veil thins. Wherever...

We Are Being Made More Human

Suffering brings us to our knees pulls us down into the dirt, into the earth, into the ground of our being Low, lower still into the...

Mystery is Meaning Enough

To be with uncertainty requires more vulnerability than just about anything else. No wonder we fear it. It requires we surrender, let...

Befriending Death in All Her Forms

If you want to grow, if you want to evolve - you have to be willing to die. You have to be willing to die over and over again. You have...

Turning Towards the Dark

We live in a light-centric culture. All that is dark and mysterious is feared, devalued and artificially brightened. Our fixation on...