The Guru
Her chair
our respected reminder that
God’s grace has honoured place
in our lives in
our hearts
Astonished first, then humbled
by her human form taking the seat
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Guest Blog by Maurice Yearwood: Milking Apprehension….
“At some point, the pain of not doing it becomes greater than the pain of doing it.” ~ Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art I have always felt an intense shiver through my body in moments when action is required. The feeling has been with me since childhood. To this day it haunts me, rearing its disastrous presence …
Guest Blog by Seth Dorcus: Speaking Up….
I’ve never been one to speak up. When it comes to sharing my experiences with others, it’s never been something I’ve been comfortable doing. Growing up, I wasn’t encouraged by my family to share openly, and I developed the belief that if I was to share anything, it could only be positive; difficult or negative things couldn’t be shared for …
Guest Blog by Christie Petti: Trusting the Guru, Trusting God….
When I read Rohini’s recent blog post, “Understanding Authority”, it became clear to me that it is impossible to truly be an “authority” without first having learned to obey and defer to authority. I get to choose, through my own agency, my willingness to surrender to an authority, and in doing so to know that I am going to receive the many gifts and …
Guest Blog by Fraz Frazier: Words and Timing….
When Rohini wrote her “Spiritual Illiteracy” blog, I read it several times over before class. The class made me understand a few things. I realized that by trying to make this journey on my own I was not being self-sufficient but being incompetent. I was meditating, reading the blogs, and listening to the classes, thinking that was good enough and …
Guest Blog by Ian Ralby: No Idle Words….
I am extremely lucky. Each week, I get to read my mother’s blogs before they are published. I get to wrestle with them, comment on them and learn from them before they become public. And each week, I get to see how important every word of them is. Each letter is intentional; there are no idle or empty words. Often …
Guest Blog by Ari Baranson: Learning To Learn….
I lost my brother Paul on October 3rd, 2016 to a drug overdose. The decisions he made throughout his life could have taken him nowhere else. Like me, he had opportunities to change, but he refused. Like me, things would get better for a time, but he would sabotage his own happiness to continue down a path that he would …
Guest Blog by Aaron Ralby: Fluency in Dialogue….
Set dialogues have been vital tools for instruction for millennia. From wisdom dialogues in ancient Egyptian to Alfric’s Colloquies in medieval Latin, scripted dialogues constitute a practical literary form for condensing and presenting essential information in use as well as the ideal relationship between teacher and disciple. Today, we are probably most familiar with the language-learning dialogues that we had …
Never Going to Learn: Guest Blog by Elizabeth Brandon….
The fact that I never learn comes in part from a belief that I can’t learn. I won’t be able to understand, and I’m too good for everything to try. It’s an arrogant belief. If there’s a positive side to this, it’s that I would never assume that I don’t need an expert opinion on a difficult topic. I would …
Guest Blog By Jim Condron: Graced….
In 2004, Rohini told me to accept an invitation to Amsterdam for an artist residency. I didn’t go, and it was the worst decision of my life. I would have had a studio and time and solitude to develop my own identity as an artist and person. But I didn’t want that. Instead I chose to move the personal items …