Nearly every wisdom tradition I have found has struggled to articulate why humans should suffer so, and laid out spiritual paths as ways to live sanely. What we want, all of us, is an end to suffering and a way to happiness. These are the same things. We know a kind of mortal wounding, a …
Cormac McCarthy said the heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. I say, to tell one. In the end, it’s the same thing. A moment of being more terribly alive. A moment when our secrets are suddenly outside: big as mountain and tall as cloud. There is no pain like a story in us, …
If you’ve recently left an abusive relationship, the holidays can bring up all sorts of emotions and be particularly lonely. This is true whether you left recently or have been gone for years. We tend to think of how it ‘should’ have been, feel increased stress about single parenting, and simply feel lonely. Holidays, we’re …
There are thousands of reasons why we stay in abusive situations, even when we know we’re being hurt and the hurt is wrong. We’re scared. We’re trapped. We’re isolated. But one of the things least understood by those outside the relationship is that we stay because we are in love. It isn’t easy to walk …
