by Stephen Rowley | Mar 13, 2018 | Essays
“Let your heart break and drop the story” is attributed to American Tibetan Buddhist and author Pema Chödrön. Her quote is often cited as a prescription for the first and essential stage of recovery from devastating loss, life changing trauma, and inconsolable...Read More
by Stephen Rowley | Mar 13, 2018 | Essays
No one likes depression. When we become depressed, our first instinct is to escape its debilitating symptoms. These symptoms include feelings of hopelessness, an aching monotony of mind, body, and spirit, and even thoughts and actions to extinguish its agony by any...Read More
by Stephen Rowley | Mar 13, 2018 | Essays
Mindful meditation has become a standard therapeutic tool for reducing stress and achieving greater clarity of mind—helping us to be more fully present in the moment. And because of its contemplative religious roots, mindfulness meditation also bears a spiritual...Read More
by Stephen Rowley | Mar 13, 2018 | Quotes
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. Carl G. Jung, Swiss...Read More
by Stephen Rowley | Mar 13, 2018 | Quotes
The feminine leads us to the sharp edge of experience. There we have to feel our feelings in our bodies; there our secrets become visible in the darkened, unvisited corners of our psyches. Claiming the unswept corners of our psyches leads us to compassion for...Read More
