I have been practicing expressing my gratitude a lot lately. I read an article today about "Holistic Gratitude", feeling grateful for life itself, for existence, for anything and everything you experience. This means good, bad, your problems/challenges, the universe.........everything. The author says this type of gratitude is more of an underlying attitude. With practice it becomes part of your identity. It reminds me of the song "God Bless the Broken Road", its a bit more challenging to say th… Continue

Nothing is more precious than the rare, exquisite, and most utterly unrepeatable essence that is you. When you offer yourself to another human being –by revealing yourself, by disclosing your fears and dreams, the losses that have shaped and transformed you ---- you give the greatest gift that you can, the gift of your unique essence.

Far from being selfish, true self-disclosure is a miracle of intimacy, for in revealing your tender, intricate inner self, you invite the person to whom you are s… Continue