http://innerpoetry.com Discover Who You Truly Are. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:32:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love to read and though I read a lot of non-fiction, the truth is I LOVE novels, stories that reach out and draw me in, pull me into their arms and carry me to some other shore, into the hearts and lives of people who all seem to hold ... http://innerpoetry.com/a-sense-of-place I had a dream last night. Of course there was much I don't remember, or can't quite piece together, but the part that stayed with me until morning demanded further examination. I am standing at sliding glass doors at the back of a house when a flicker of movement catches my ... http://innerpoetry.com/hawks-and-squirrels Clarification...I am not talking here about the ability and necessity of saying "No" to things that tip our lives out of balance or cause our plates to overflow. I am talking instead about the voice deep down in our belly, the one that says No or Yes to life and to ... http://innerpoetry.com/the-distance-between-no-and-yes What is your Guiding Question? I love this term...guiding question. But what exactly does it mean? Is it, perhaps, the yearning within that drives your greatest seeking? The one thing that weaves its way into your thinking, your consciousness, your life, at every turn...that which inhabits and defines the patterns ... http://innerpoetry.com/finding-your-north-star Years ago I flew in a helicopter over an ice field in Alaska. We landed, and as I descended the steps, I was awestruck. Not one foostep scarred the snow, not one trace of life but mine and my companions could be seen. Into my mind, four words came, repeating ... http://innerpoetry.com/ice-fields The concept of Becoming and the process of our evolution have long been topics of my fascination. Just how we develop in consciousness and on the physical plane of life...the very mechanisms of creation. Science, philosophy, theology...each offers answers, and though may, at times, proclaim Truth, all are ultimately steeped in the absolute of one thing - the ... http://innerpoetry.com/the-secret-of-hope I sit on my couch, feeling the exhalation of day whisper upon my skin as it fades into night. I follow, thankful for the emptying. Realizing that every outbreath is an opportunity to let go. In the darkness, in the silence, I am held. At rest. Nothing to do. Nowhere ... http://innerpoetry.com/night-musingsin-every-breath Sometimes we don't even know what we need until we find ourselves knee deep in the answer. For example...last week I took a Zumba class. If you are not familiar with Zumba, the definition on the official website, Zumba.com, says it is "a fusion of Latin and International music that creates ... http://innerpoetry.com/the-zumba-lesson At the beginning of my first year of graduate school a professor said something to his newbie counselors-in-training that struck a nerve so perfectly that I have never forgotten it, and have come over time to understand it in deeper and richer ways. He said simply, "Therapy lies in the ... http://innerpoetry.com/weekly-wisdom-herons-and-pigeons Scientists seek A Theory of Everything...an ultimate discovery that will tie all natural forces and matter together in a complete system. Several years ago I read a book about what many believe could be A Theory of Everything. The book was The Elegant Universe by physicist Brian Greene, and the ... http://innerpoetry.com/weekly-wisdom