Mirabai Starr – Feel with Neil

On a mother’s love

No child is ever free from his mother except to the extent that she wills and sets the child so.

Dark Night of the Soul (1.8) – Silence

Stumbling into nothing but paradoxes entwined in incessant ruminations cycling ceaselessly through my mind.

Questionnaire: Crisis? Transformation

Do you feel yourself trying to tighten controls and to think your way to certitude?

Christmas Carol paradoxes 5 – It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

Wishing we have “ears to hear” above the din of judgmental self-talk

Dark Night of the Soul (8) – Richard Rohr

In crisis, shoulds and oughts don’t help. Love wins out over guilt any day.

Dark Night of the Soul (1.7) – Thomas Moore (Ego vs Soul?)

[2.5 minute read] For everyone [see more in Dark Night of the Soul (0) – Resources & Recommendations] Excerpts from Thomas Moore’s Foreword to Starr‘s translation [DEPRESSION?] … how do we distinguish between depression and…the dark night John describes (not all painful transitions qualify as a dark night of the soul)? …What we call depressionContinue reading “Dark Night of the Soul (1.7) – Thomas Moore (Ego vs Soul?)”