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July 25, 2022
Taking Responsibility for Rage and Creativity
For any real creation, there must be a rage. It takes rage to break through the chrysalis of fear, pride, conventional thinking, our need for approval, or whatever is encapsulating us. Creativity requires the concentration of all our passion, our love, our anger, our rage, and our hatred—the concentration of all of these combined with our sensitivity and our thoughtfulness.
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July 19, 2022
Taking Responsibility for the Reality That Our Democracy is Weak
As our democracy has weakened, we have become increasingly ruled by predators and fear. We are afraid of taking risks, of speaking out, of being criticized, of not being politically correct, of being confronted, of offending family, friends, neighbors, and of losing business. Have we become afraid of being free?
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July 12, 2022
Taking Responsibility for Reclaiming the Heart of Our Democracy
Dear Reader, “Few are guilty but all are responsible,” the great religious scholar and leader Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote about the moral state of a people. As a people, we Americans are at a turning point in our history. …
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June 8, 2022
Becoming a Love Warrior Lesson 4: Love Warriors Choose Life
The quest of a love warrior is to never settle for an interior wasteland caused by a discouraged or barren heart. We must be seeking the Grail in the forests of our interior lives.
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June 1, 2022
Becoming a Love Warrior Lesson 3: Becoming a Love Warrior Takes Fierceness
The white, educated, middle and upper-middle class now seems to have lost its spiritual ground of caring about the welfare of others. Pursuing the idols of achievement, materialism, money, and security seem to be its new religion.
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May 25, 2022
Becoming a Love Warrior Lesson 2: Becoming a Love Warrior Takes a Firm Foundation
Love does heal and it must begin within ourselves. We must become wounded healers with the knowledge of what has caused our wounds and how to heal them.
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May 19, 2022
Becoming a Love Warrior Lesson I: Facing the Truth of Our Reality
A Jungian perspective on the meaning of love in these challenging times. The potential to become love warriors is possible for all of us. It lies deep in our hearts waiting for us to have the courage to find it.
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February 22, 2022
Healing Alienation is Crucial
As I write this blog post, I realize I am in an interesting place. During the last few years, I have found myself, as a Jungian analyst, deeply involved with people in the suffering, fear, chaos and uncertainty of these …
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February 17, 2022
The Lady of the House
Creativity sometimes comes out in different and unexpected forms that surprise us. This is the case with The Lady of the House quilt. I found myself wanting to write about a topic that is dear to me, but the creative …
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January 10, 2022
Stronger at the Broken Places: Remembering Max Cleland
A hero of mine passed away early last November. He was the former Democratic senator from Georgia, Max Cleland. I want to share some poignant and meaningful memories with you along with the reflections that followed them. I met …
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