It is easy to forget that every aspect of our spiritual or moral life is enacted on the body. The story of recovery, the story of our lives, is both spiritual and physical. If we want to find what matters, what our rights and wrongs are, we do best to start in the body. It’s …
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down. -Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” Most of us throw up tremendous walls, stoney masks, and live that …
When all else fails, do nothing. Chances are, you’ve been trying too hard, to do something that won’t work, that you aren’t capable of doing, that may not even be possible. Chances are, you’ve been resisting the way things are, and wearing a mask that resists your real self. That doesn’t work. What works best …
The fundamental question of human beings is this being, this consciousness. Why are we so screwy? Where did we go wrong? Why does everything have to be so stupid? There are camps. One camp says determinism. The other says determinism, too. Nature forms us, says the first. We are nurtured and trained, says the second. …
