Sublime

To take our medicine consciously is the difference between a temporary cure for distress and the long-lived spaciousness of our true healing.

Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Yet we can attend to such wounds. We can learn to hold space for the presence of shadow and sorrow. Learning how to live with the pain of my mother’s illness and her subsequent absence has informed my life’s work with both the living and the dying. If I am wise and capable enough to skillfully integrate the painful emotions stirred by her loss, I c

To me a master is anyone who can be themselves in any situation. Renias lives this definition. He has achieved one of the hardest things to achieve in our time: a freedom from judgment about how and who he should be.

I am a strong supporter of those who bring back the stories of their heritages, preserving them, saving them from death by neglect. Of course, it is the old people who are the bones of the entire healing and spiritual structures everywhere on the face of the earth.

This is about becoming conscious of the people in your life and whether or not they, like food, are nourishing you or weighing you down.

Patients were no longer body-minds that needed “fixing” but were vibrant expressions of bliss that were inseparable from me.

The compassion is to let people be as they need to be without changing them.

The basic premise that runs through all my work asserts that all human beings are born gifted.