The Original Home

Gazing up at the sun in the backyard of the pre-school I attended, the glow, the shine peeking from behind the roof — maybe it was a bell tower; it felt like it was, or maybe that’s a memory from lifetimes ago, while doing the very same gazing - my face turned toward it, like daffodils seeking sunlight after a dark winter. I looked into the sun, too young to know you didn’t do such things, but instinctively longing for the light.

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Relax. People Have Been Doing This For Centuries.

I’m working with a student who has had an awakening, and they’re seeing themselves differently, the world differently, life differently. They’re noticing they aren’t controlling everything. That things are happening, without a “doer”. This is liberating…and unsettling.

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2010: Confessions Of A Confused Comic

It’s a fall night in 2010. The air is now cooler here in Los Angeles. Not by much. But the slight change is palpable. I feel sick to my stomach and know what I have to do. I look down at my black, hightop, Converse shoes, part of the get-up of your average stand up comic at the time, and I steel myself. I hated having to do it before a show…

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Confessions Of A Modern Mystic

About a dozen years ago, something happened that changed everything. A monumental shift in perception and identity occurred. I had been meditating quite a bit. I knew something was coming, and yet…it still surprised me. This radical shift is known as a spiritual awakening, a satori, a path moment — all kinds of words to describe the indescribable.

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Don't Light Yourself On Fire To Keep Another Person Warm

“Don’t light yourself on fire to keep another person warm.”

A healing client mentioned this quote to me last week and we both smiled. I hadn’t heard this in years but I shook my head in total recognition that this has been one of my biggest lessons in this lifetime. I’ve had years of experience doing the “right” thing, the “good” thing, and trying to relieve others of their pain…at my own expense.

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