What role has forgiveness played in your life?
img Forgiveness? It has turned my life around, literally stood my life on its ear. But I have to tell you this: it was me forgiving me that started the process. As I forgive myself,... More »
img Forgiveness? It has turned my life around, literally stood my life on its ear. But I have to tell you this: it was me forgiving me that started the process. As I forgive myself,... More »
For me, I am a bit of a black sheep in my family, having turned away from the fundamentalist Christianity of my upbringing. Many years ago I had a conversation with my mother in which... More »
That it comes in its own time, that the years of struggle and frustration and longing to be whole were not empty or in vain. They were filled, literally packed, with lessons designed for me... More »
Loving myself unconditionally means loving myself when I show compassion for my noisy neighbour and when I react in anger to his actions/noise, with no difference in feeling between the two , with no judgment... More »
Oneness. I’ve been receiving lessons in the meaning of oneness, having been woken up in the middle of the night with the questions: One? and: Li? in quick succession. Li is the surname of a... More »
To forgive myself for thinking I (or anyone else) ever did anything wrong. In other words, to stop with the judgment. In other words, to give up the notions of right/wrong that feed the judgment.... More »
What I saw as my mother's lifelong emotional abandonment. A couple of years ago I had a dream in which my mother and I were living together again, and one morning I woke up and... More »
There have been many books, but one stands way above the crowd for me: Iyanla Vanzant's "In the Meantime." It posed the to me novel and very, very powerful idea: I forgive myself for thinking... More »
The town? Twenty years ago, on a break from a university some distance away, I visited my mother there and felt on the first night the silent screams coming from walls saturated with words that were... More »