Inner-Mastery Mentoring

We can realize it's an act of courage to love, care and connect with othersMy friend died this week. I'm "shook," sad and in shock. When I came to town, he and his friends would always come to my dinner parties as a trio.  I called them the Three Amigos. There's a...

“Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.” Sogyal Rinpoche, OfferingsI recently learned of an...

Constriction has been showing up a lot lately. By constriction I mean fear, sadness, worry, uncertainty, anger, loss… you get the picture. I’ve been hearing about it, I’ve been feeling it, and of course there has been a flood of it on news broadcasts and other...

I kept searching for a different inspiration for this Musing. But try as I might, the inspiration for this month’s contemplation persisted. You see, I transplanted two of my pineapples into pots around my backyard. In digging the plants up, I was so preoccupied with...

Life. There are a thousand teachers who claim they have the secret to it. Counselors and therapists will provide us with the skills for it. Sages, philosophers, and Guru’s will guide us through it. Yet ultimately, we each must show up to our own life. Good, bad, or...

“Stop. Please, just stop.” David Carse, “Perfect, Brilliant, Stillness. The next lines which followed the above quote were: “Stop talking, stop objecting. Just for a momentlet quietness happen.Notice how you cannot do that, you cannot bring that about. Notice how...

Today I saw an article in my news feed which reported that in the United States about 140,000 kids have lost a parent or “parenting” relative to Covid-19. The quoted psychologist said that this would affect them until “at least until age 18.” As a former Bereavement...

Lately life has been exceptionally expanded and happy. And for the first time in my nearly 60 years on this planet, I’m not collapsing into it,  I’m just enjoying it. Man, that took me a long time to figure out. In the last couple of years, I came to realize that...

For the first time in months I found myself struggling to write my Musing. I even had a strong inspiration, a phenomenal book called “Essentialism” by Geoff McKeown. So, as I waited to connect to my muse, my “golden thread,” it finally dawned on me. I don’t need to...