A new Spirit Walks the Dog Podcast episode is available now on your favorite podcast app … Join Marinda Stopforth and myself for a conversation about Spirit in everyday life New episodes every other week! Available wherever you find your podcasts: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon podcasts, iHeart Radio … If you enjoy the podcast, pleaseContinue reading “Spirit Walks the Dog podcast”
Tag Archives: meditation
Be a Seed
“Justice, most of us believe, is when we send bad guys to jail. We imagine that we can point out the few who get caught and that then we can think of ourselves as a fair society. But we don’t dare convict the whole system of massive injustice and deceit. Maybe we are refusing toContinue reading “Be a Seed”
Spirit Walks the Dog Podcast
The first episode of Spirit Walks the Dog drops today, Mar 3! New episodes every other week! Available wherever you find your podcasts Join us today for a conversation about Spirit in everyday life …
Intention Matters in Real Ways
“In the 1980s, during the peak of the Lebanon War, an incredible study was conducted. “It was hypothesised, based on many previous smaller experiments, that if enough people were connected in meditation, stimulating a ‘powerful field of peace’ within – that there would be a radiated influence of peace without, ie. one that affected theContinue reading “Intention Matters in Real Ways”
To Be Peace
Please send thoughts and imaginings and prayers only of love and compassion to everyone right now. Hold in love those who are grieving, frightened, heartbroken, abused in any way, protecting the vulnerable … and also love for those who are angry, aggressive, broken inside, so alienated from their own innate holiness that they wield theirContinue reading “To Be Peace”
Mystics & Prophets
“The key to living as a prophet-mystic is showing up for what is, no matter how heartbreaking or laborious, how fraught with seemingly intractable conflict and how tempting it might be to meditate or pray our way out of the pain. Contemplative practices train us to befriend reality, to become intimate with all things byContinue reading “Mystics & Prophets”
Responsibility: complicity to truth
The ideals that our country has professed since the ratification of the Constitution have never really been owned up to and met. Any Hispanic, Asian, black, or American Indian will attest to this. Most women could attest. Yet the myth persists that we’re the good guys. Our government has invaded, undermined, destroyed, strong-armed, blackmailed, andContinue reading “Responsibility: complicity to truth”
Creation in Chaos
Resistance has intended effect when it applies pressure that acts rather than reacts. Reactive resistance gives the thing being resisted something to push against, keeping it present. Notice what happens when you go under, around or through. Notice what happens when action is taken, rather than reaction being in charge. As things fall apart, spacesContinue reading “Creation in Chaos”
19 January 2025
Close your eyes and imagine sending big love to people that you love. Then close your eyes and imagine send big love to the people that you disagree with, despise, and fear. It is not necessary to be angry in order to stand up to what is wrong. It is not necessary to hate orContinue reading “19 January 2025”