Addiction and Recovery

We all need each other to get by. Loving and being loved fulfills our deepest human need and allows us to stay on track as we navigate the challenges and […]

  “If you can’t love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody.” Unknown   The first step in learning to act with love is to make a vow […]

Far too many of us grow into adulthood with a pervasive feeling of emptiness, borne of a lack of self-love. This may be due to physical and emotional neglect while […]

We cannot decide to feel love or compassion. Nor can we decide to forgive. Authentic love, compassion, and forgiveness are not an act, they are an experience. You cannot consciously […]

In the United States, we live a society seduced by materialism in the pursuit of pleasure and comfort. Some of us also buy status items in order to enhance our […]

The purpose of life is to both savor and nurture life. We nurture life through loving, since our loving acts enhance the wellbeing of others either directly, such as when […]

The Universe is organized chaos, thriving on ordered randomness. Randomness allows for the diversification and survival of life, but it also can be a destroyer of life, as when we […]

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi “Recovery is a verb. […]

Who are we? We are the pure, empty field of awareness in which our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions arise. Most of us are caught in the illusion that we are […]