becoming

To have the audacity to be and love and know yourself in a world content to have you live your days in hiding—this is bliss.

one’s spiritual quest, it’s actually the end of the restless seeker but the beginning of exploring the infinite nature of the reality one has awoken to, as well as the inexhaustible journey of embodying that reality in the challenging terrain of your everyday life, through the priceless vehicle of your human incarnation.

Transformation isn't a butterfly. It's the thing before you get to be a pretty bug flying away. It's huddling in the dark cocoon and then pushing your way out. It's the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become th

crocodiles, I want to capture the process in which humans, struggling to evolve, push against their shells until they quietly (but sometimes loudly)

Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.

As the term implies, defenses serve a useful purpose. They shield people from injury … until they no longer need them. It’s in this ellipsis that therapists work.