“…do it as an act of love of deep warm friendship to yourself, in this way there is no longer any need for the subtle aggression of self-improvement [or] the endless guilt of not doing enough.” Bob Sharples There is a decent amount of buzz about self-care these days, though I would argue that at least in the U.S., we think of self-care more like self-improvement. In the quote above, Bob Sharples is talking about doing meditation as an act of love for oneself rather than just another good practice to add to our never-ending list of things to do. Of course,…

“In the universe, there are things that are known and things that are unknown and in between them, there are doors.”  William Blake Philosophically, I love the idea of liminal space. The in-between time. Not quite the ending, but certainly not the beginning. From the safety of the mind, I can look at liminality as a frontier of possibilities—something new on the horizon. And, yet, landing in the middle of it can be disorienting. There are no clear signposts on what direction to take and no markers by which to measure progress. Its hallmarks are uncertainty, ambiguity and more often than not, discomfort. Our American culture has…