musings for Inner-Mastery 

Essays For Evolution

2024 Musings

Guilt Versus Truth

After many months of demanding circumstances, the dust is clearing, ...

“It’s Too Much, I Can’t…”

For Some, inner mastery means facing things with a level head, ...

Just Wait…

I've been reflecting on the cyclical pattern of constriction and ...

Keeping The Heart Open

A dream come true has landed in my lap. A ...

2023 Musings

Quiet Doesn´t Mean ¨Not Talking¨

I've watched many things fall away in my life, some ...

What Matters

The last time I left the Bay Area to return ...

Life and Love

Love has come home to roost. I´ve had 61 years ...

Life: The Play of Resisting & Receiving

There have been times when my life seemed stuck. I ...
fulfilling life

The 5 L’s For Living a Long, Fulfilling Life

As the sale and emptying of my Florida home move ...

Consciously Uncoupling

I am sitting in a small, Islands-bright aqua bedroom a ...

Getting Through Tough Times

Man, did I struggle last week. I could not manage, ...

2022 Musings

The Broken Butterfly

I kept searching for a different inspiration for this Musing ...

Constriction

Constriction has been showing up a lot lately. By constriction ...

Doing Without Doing

“Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in ...

The Courage To Love

We can realize it's an act of courage to love, ...

Changes and Choices

Many people have heard the phrase “trying to change the ...

The Inner Pendulum

You can never, no matter how hard you try, be ...

Three Powerful Words to Practice

Two weeks ago, I was on retreat with Rupert Spira, ...

End Of Year Message

¨…Returning to ourselves is a road we choose, with all ...

2021 Musings

Inner Mastery- Musing: ¨I Am That¨

¨I Am That¨

“I cannot but see you as myself.It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.”         ...
Inner Mastery Musing: Simplicity

Simplicity

“The Art of Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook” William JamesOne of the most powerful skills ...
Inner Mastery Musing: Finding Beauty

Finding Beauty

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it ...

The Unexpected Change

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live ...
Centered Expansion

Centered Expansion

A dream come true has landed in my lap. A stunning north Berkeley home with an expansive, beautifully landscaped garden, ...
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Enjoyment Versus Attachment

“In the end, it doesn't matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments took your breath away.”   ...
Inner Mastery Musing: Essentialism

Essentialism

For the first time in months I found myself struggling to write my Musing. I even had a strong inspiration, a phenomenal ...
Inner Mastery Musing: Happiness

Happiness And The Cycle Of Pleasure & Desire

Lately life has been exceptionally expanded and happy. And for the first time in my nearly 60 years on this ...
Inner Mastery Musing: Enjoyment Versus Attachment

La Familia

The other night I went to my friends, Abby and Frankie’s, for dinner. Abby and Frankie have been together since the ...
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Shadow Times

Today I saw an article in my news feed which reported that in the United States about 140,000 kids have ...

2020 Musings

inner mastery musing: unbidden joy

Unbidden Joy

Lately I’ve been experiencing moments of uncaused joy.  Many times ...
Less Becoming More

Less Becoming More

Slow down, Soften your eardrums Birds are singing.  Taste with tenderness Each bite’s ...
Be The Change

Be The Change

A client asked me the other day when Trump had ...