Posts by Carl
Softening our Rigidities We Find the Healing Power of Nature
A note from Carl: Greetings, Last week I attended a powerful retreat with Will Johnson, where we worked with bringing hands-on bodywork sessions into sitting meditation retreats to support ease, comfort and vitality in sitting practice. There was a line he shared during the retreat that has been resonating, percolating and inspiring both Erin and…
Read MoreA Heart Big Enough for Everything
A note from Carl: Yesterday we celebrated our son Mesa’s 5th birthday. The day before we awoke to hear that Erin’s beloved grandfather, Ken Gardner, “Papa,” had died peacefully yet unexpectedly in his sleep. Along with the earthquake in Nepal, there’s just so much for the heart to hold… As I went through the beautiful…
Read MoreBeer, Basketball and Being Spiritual
A note from Erin: Years ago when Carl and I were involved in what I see in retrospect as a waaaayyyyy too serious and heavy version of Buddhist study and practice, we went for many years without watching a movie. We quit reading fiction. Entirely. We didn’t go camping or travel hardly at all. We…
Read MoreThe Mystery of Life Being Lived
A note from Carl: Greetings! A little Rilke to begin: And yet, though we strain against the deadening grip of daily necessity. I sense there is mystery: All life is being lived. -Rilke I appreciate how easily the emergence of spring can interrupt the deadening grip of daily necessity and illuminate the mystery of life…
Read MoreA Will to Wonder
A note from Carl: This morning I am reflecting on a line that Mark Nepo quotes in his wonderful book, 7000 Ways To Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred. The quote from Abraham Heschel: “We will not perish for want of information: but only for want of appreciation…what we lack is not a will…
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