Tag Archives: Grace
Everyone’s experience with the pandemic is unique, but for some of us, one of the gifts of the current global retreat is the experience of slowing down, an opportunity to become present, to discover who we are. We lose so much in all our doing—mostly we lose ourselves. One of my therapy clients, expressing her feelings about how her life has changed so dramatically since the pandemic, made this comment: “My life has become unfamiliar to me.” Our outer lives…..
Recently, I happened to watch two inspiring documentaries. The first followed the extraordinary journey of three men who climbed to the summit of Meru, a mountain in the Himalayas. All previous attempts had failed, and the summit had been considered unreachable. The second film documented the nine-month voyage of six women who, incredibly, rowed eight thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. Both extreme adventures required overcoming impossible obstacles, facing the ultimate physical and mental challenges that presented real confrontations with…..
One day on my lunch break I was at Shoreline Park watching a young seagull perched on a picnic table a few feet away. Perfectly still except for his soft, brown feathers ruffling in the breeze, he gazed at me for a long time. I thought about the Eastern concept of darshan—the sight of a holy person. Just being in the presence of a Master, a highly evolved being, we receive grace. When they open their eyes and their gaze…..
