To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements.

A flower won't open if I yell at it and say “Bloom!

But if you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down to meet yourself. And you will say - yes.

Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

Storytelling is at the heart of life... In finding our own story, we assemble all the parts of ourselves. Whatever kind of mess we have made of it, we can somehow see the totality of who we are and recognize how our blunderings are related. We can own what we did and value who we are, not because of the outcome but because of the soul story that propelled us.