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Re-conceiving Ourselves for Dec 2012

This Tuesday (March 20, 2012) is the Spring Equinox, but it is more than just the day of nearly equal darkness and light that marks the beginning of spring.  Some would have this day declared the beginning of the New … Continue reading

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Stuck in a Rut, or Hiding From Life?

I woke up this morning feeling a bit tired and unsettled, an all too familiar state of late.  I had been having trying dreams again that reflected some conflict and imbalance on deep inner levels, but their origins were not … Continue reading

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Stories We Tell Ourselves

I always tell people that I learn from all of our students and from our clients in the Mesa Healing Center.  I really feel blessed that because of these relationships I have accessed understandings that I may not otherwise have … Continue reading

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Faith Makes Sense (It’s “sensical”)

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a pretty logical kind of guy.  Much of the time this serves me very well, but at times it can be a great hindrance.  I began to recognize that aspect of my logical self … Continue reading

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Disconnecting from Negative Motivation

Many people these days are thinking themselves into a frenzy, not even realizing that they are thinking at all, because it passes by their own awareness like so many subliminal Coca-Cola ads on the movie theater screen in their minds.  … Continue reading

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Joy of Gardening: Rediscovering a Connection with Nature.

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with Betty, a Washington County, PA Master Gardener.  She had called us at The Mesa to ask questions about Medicine Wheels.  It turned out that she was a registered nurse who also ran a … Continue reading

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Releasing Resolutions: New Year’s 2012

Over the last couple of decades of my life I have usually felt that New Years, like so many other American/Gregorian calendar holidays, is just another day like any other.  It always seemed so arbitrary, coming some ten days or … Continue reading

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Grace: Are You Worthy of Loving Patience?

Certain lessons seem to emerge over and over again to pummel us in life, mainly because we’re not learning them.  Sometimes it’s greater mastery that’s eluding us, that feeling of still missing a finer point of one of life’s mostly-assembled … Continue reading

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Remebering Your Spiritual Lineage

Our trip to the beach during Thanksgiving week 2011 was marvelous and full of learning.  It felt so good to be at the ocean again, feeling the energy of the water, wind, and sand.  The temperatures reached nearly 70 degrees by … Continue reading

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Giving in to How Others Interpret Us

I was talking with a visitor to The Mesa the other day who was concerned about their spiritual path for this lifetime.  They felt unsure about what they were doing as their life’s work and wondering what they had come … Continue reading

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