Diving for Light, Day 11 - An Awareness of Death
> We cannot be truly alive without maintaining an awareness of death. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight. She helps us to discover what matters most. > -Frank Ostaseski, The Five Invitations...
Diving for Light, Day 10 - Choosing Growth
> Choose to allow what you go through to fuel your growth rather than stunt it. > - Cleo Wade, Heart Talk I find myself paying a lot more attention to the news these days than I usually do. Each day...
Diving for Light, Day 9 - The Wisdom of Darkness
> Some beauty can only be seen in darkness. > Some music can only be heard in darkness. > Some problems can only be solved in darkness. > There is a necessary darkness that assists all of life > in the...
Diving for Light Day 8 - Sticking with Uncertainty
> I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our...
Diving for Light Day 7 - Developing Emotional Resilience
(I got) a lot of practice with “bench-pressing” my discomfort with uncertainty…I couldn’t make what I wanted happen, so there was nothing for me to do other than to practice being with the fear and anxiety...
Diving for Light, Day 6 - Writing as Creative Expression
One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order...
Day 5 - Being Human
“To be human is to live by sunlight and moonlight, with anxiety and delight, admitting limits and transcending them, falling down and rising up.” - Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark...
Diving for Light, Day 4 - Slowing Down, Finding Joy
“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy…. Seek out each day as many as possible...
Diving for Light, Day 3 - Global Awakening
"A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global proportions." -Matthew Fox, Original Blessing I don’t feel old, but I am old enough to remember the first whispered beginnings...
Diving for Light, Day 2 - Morning Rhythms
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings while the dawn is still dark.” -Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies I’ve never been a morning person. It was sheer agony during my 25 years of classroom teaching...