I’ve been here before. At least I recognized a place I’d tasted in a previous meditation retreat when Jack had cancer. I had gone looking for solace from a tree, finding one I could climb up into and lie along a broad branch to hug. But the tree was dead. There was no life force … Read more
Those who work with death and the dying at Emberlight are attuned to an energy shift that occurs as a person enters the dying process. This seems relevant in connection with Easter. At least it was to me. I had the opportunity last week to “shadow” my good friend Lynne. She was taking a turn … Read more
I caught myself monitoring my energy the other day. Jack was away all week at an art seminar, so my time was my own. I’ve seen in the past when that is the case that rather than being more relaxed, I get busier. I was using the uninterrupted hours to pack more into my day. … Read more
The importance of aim is central to both Gurdjieff and JG Bennett’s lives and work. A big aim can give purpose to life, small aims can help guide us forward.
How do I stay out of the way? To practice the work for others, it can’t be about myself, but that’s tricky. I need to move aside so something can come thru me instead.
The question, “what is my responsibility” looked me square in the face the other day. What I began to see in response to an internal kerfuffle at Claymont was that neither the event, nor the people involved, were at the crux of the problem. I had to admit my own laziness towards the responsibility of … Read more
What does it mean to be impartial? I think I know what it means. Not to take sides, not to have a horse in the race. To not be identified. Now there’s a good one. What are the signs of being identified? When I find tapes looping in my head, that’s usually a sign. When … Read more
My physical body is sick this week and it’s put me energetically in front of the work of not doing. I simply do not have the energy. Usually, I am all about doing. I start doing before I get out of bed, setting up the routine of the day and my relationship with it. Sometimes … Read more
I feel like I’m walking the line, and a thin one at that, between drowning in negativity and sending positive energy out to the future. Part of me hopes the negativity I get caught up in is partisan politics, not our democracy being hijacked and turned into a Fascist regime. That I need to work … Read more
Am I being asked? Or is my Being asked? How do I “open to what is being asked?” And what does that mean? Last week, one of the Daily Tasks on Claymont’s Course of Study program had to do with allowing yourself to be inconvenienced. Could you catch yourself in one of those moments and … Read more