“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” -David Whyte   … [Read more...]

“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people … [Read more...]

“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear – stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering – fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could … [Read more...]

“The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.” - Mark Epstein, MD For most of my life I lived according to what I thought I was supposed to do.  I put incredible pressure on myself to excel academically and athletically; the more I achieved, the … [Read more...]