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Tithing as a Way of Living in the Gift

The following is from my work-in-progress, The Love Revival Guide to Hustling-to-End-Babylon Tithing is an ancient spiritual discipline that fosters gift culture.  It invites the divine to be present...

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What is Love

Love is a frequency of energy that’s always available to us.  More accurately, love is the fundamental energy of the universe – the energy that creates, sustains and evolves all life.  It’s a...

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Bloggers With Empathy, Part 1

I tend to only really love a blog when its author offers a mix of vulnerability and empathy that, to quote a radio hit from the Verve, “recognize the pain in me.” Which is to say, blogs that are all...

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Some Basic Principles of Awesoming

A list. 1) Awesome (perhaps inevitably, for us mere mortals!) cycles through periods of miserable suck in which your lovelight dims and the queasy miasma of vast self-rejection settles in.  It’s okay...

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Dissipating the foul miasma of vast self-rejection

The objective correlative of suck The foul miasma of vast self-rejection is, of course, not a literal miasma but rather a mode of consciousness.  The miasma is the objective correlative of a sucky,...

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Nonresistance: practicing ending my addiction to suffering

One of the primary ways in which I get the foul miasma of self-rejection to descend upon me is by imagining that there are things in this world I need to resist or avoid. I look out onto the horizon of...

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Addiction and scarcity: when there isn’t enough to go around

Somewhere along the line, we humans get confused about love.  We want it to be special. Which means, we want more of it than other people get.  We want more attention, more nurturing, more recognition...

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The ever-sexy work of habit change

Often our brain-burrowing fear worm likes to tell us that we can’t now bother instituting new good habits and dropping our old bad habits (in my case – smoking and coffee-drinking and over-eating and...

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Your deepest gifts aren’t unique (and why that’s great)

There’s probably a finite number of ways that the divine expresses through us human beings.  I can think of maybe a dozen distinct types of gifts of spirit that I’ve received in my life from hundreds...

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How to Be Creative

There’s two of you and only one really knows how to be creative Learning how to be creative readily, consistently, and easily comes from understanding something a little shocking: there’s two of you....

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What to Do When Life Sucks

This year, I endured my own personal apocalypse.  Personal apocalypses are highly embarrassing, especially when one has a blog titled “Awesome Your Life” and finds herself feeling radically, hellishly...

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With Metta: Cultivating Boundless Love

I’m a giant fan of metta. Metta, of course, is the Pali word for loving-kindness or friendliness.  Along with karuna (compassion), mudita (sympathetic joy), and upekkha (equanimity) it’s considered one...

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How to use metta to both disarm your internal meanness and also to get drunk

The funny thing about metta practice is that in attempting to radiate boundless goodwill, I discover just how much ill-will I’ve got in my heart. It’s a lot. I can have barriers of ill-will built up...

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How to love your ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend (really)

One of my more recent ex-boyfriends is a wonderful, adorable person in every dimension.  Let’s call him Gianni. Gianni and I had a good thing going – but no physical chemistry betwixt us, so we parted...

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How to Experience Less Miserable Pain

Lately, I’ve been pretty good at making messes.  Big, ugly messes that involve hurting other people and embarrassing myself profoundly. Ugh. The more I study up on the brahma-viharas, the more it makes...

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How Do I Get a Life? – the 5 step answer

The question of how to get a life is one most people have to ask themselves at some point.  Very few folks spring into the world knowing full well how to pack a social calendar or spark a glamorous...

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How to be an Optimist: See Life as a Dream

A young man wrote to me about his own pessimism (co-occuring with a scientific attitude toward life) and asked me what spurs on my optimism.  I wrote this reply: Optimism and Transcendentalism I guess...

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The Kale Diet: Embarking

Okay, so I know that I don’t tend to stick to my diets unless I blog about them. And I’ve put on a bit of extra cushion around my middle after too many kind friends brought me too much delicious food...

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Dream Yoga: I’m Starting Out

Dream yoga is a process of gaining lucidity in one’s night-time dreams in order to gain lucidity in all of life – to realize at a deep level that our waking life is a dream, too. I’ve decided to start...

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Kale in Chili Coconut Broth with Black Beans and Quinoa

Okay, so this is what I ate for lunch and dinner on Day 1 of the Great Kale Diet. I don’t have any photography skillz so you’re gonna have to take my word for it – this dish is beautiful, rich,...

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