Do Not Spare Yourself

“I succumbed,” she said. “I stopped denying the wounds and felt them, felt their width and breadth. Pain can be clarifying. If you are able to feel it...the pain itself will tell you what to do.”

I looked out of the window, feeling disappointed and empty. This was not the answer I had come for. I wanted something else, some other formula or techniqu

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Killing our desire out of fear keeps us hungry, irritable, and rooted in shallow soil. We may feel a sense of security, of staying in society’s good graces, but we don’t experience aliveness. We don’t get nourishment, we don’t get hydration. We don’t get great sex, great art, or great poetry. “Great” can only come through when we stop setting our c

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