Healing into Life and Death

These were the patients who saw that illness was not a failure and that pain was not a punishment.

holds pleasure or pain. Then the healing goes deeper than we ever imagined, deeper than we ever dreamed.

she acknowledged “complete ignorance of life” in the face of the great quandary of disease and possible death.

It may well be that the experience that these patients had was in part the difference between one’s pain being touched with fear and one’s pain being touched by love.

“the visitor in the body and the egg that hatched it all.”

When our effort is goalless, when there is no attachment to results, to the fruits of our labors, then our only work is to be with the energies of the present.

opening the heart of the womb meditation, the healing meditation, the discomforture meditation and the heavy state meditation, are used with special situations and to loosen specific issues or holdings.

How can we enter our pain with a new softness instead of that same old hardness and judgment? How do we enter with mercy that which has so often been withdrawn from with a merciless indictment, a sense of failure for even existing?

For the healing we all seek goes much deeper than that. It goes to the very core of what is referred to as “being.” Being