Author, Steven Pressfield, — Legend of Bagger Vance, The War of Art, and Gates of Fire — talks about the chattering critic inside our heads that keeps us from moving forward with what we were born to do. He even gives a name to this voice, he calls it resistance. He says resistance stops us from committing to…
Month: June 2016
Happy Anniversary
Six years ago, George and I got permanently hitched. For those of you who don’t know me, six years ago today I received a liver transplant, and I named my new liver George. It is still hard for me to believe and comprehend, and I thank God every day for the gift of life. There…
Zohar
In wrath remember mercy. — Zohar, Volume 18. The Zohar is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. My EFM classmates know of my attraction to the mystical and the mystery of our faith, and indeed it might be considered mystical to remember mercy when one is “so angry one could spit.”…
Buddhist Koan
A koan is a riddle or puzzle that Buddhists use during meditation to help them unravel greater truths about the world and about themselves. A friend who happens also to be a Buddhist priest says when he wrote about the latest events in Orlando, the following: “There is much that we can do, but first and foremost we…
Pain and Change
Suzy asks, “How can you put up with the pain in your knees day after day, but you cringe when you have to get a shot?” She wonders why I don’t get my knees replaced, but when she asks why not, I always have a rationale. In truth our attraction to certain forms of…