Archives for May 2022

The key to opening the human heart is acceptance. That recently hit me like an epiphany. If you’ll just take a minute and imagine how it affects you when you feel truly accepted by another, I suspect you will sense a softening, an easing, a relaxing of your heart. I suspect you will realize how […]

The question of how to treat others has received the same singular answer in most every religion and ethical tradition since the sixth century BCE. For example, in ancient Hinduism we are told, “One should never do something to others that one would regard as an injury to one’s own self. In brief, this is […]

Love is a circle with three phases. These phases blend into one another seamlessly, around and around again, potentially lifelong, and maybe even beyond. The phases are as the sweeps of a second hand, beginning at 12: first downward, then across, finally upward toward closure – and repetition. For love’s satisfaction, love’s perpetuation, all three […]