spirituality | spirituality
Mar.15.2013
Today’s Great Stuff for Writers focuses on an aspect of spirituality I am just beginning to delve into in my own writing and thinking: The Feminine Divine. Exploring this side of my spirituality is proving to be a challenging, rich, and satisfying journey—and one I will be blogging about in future...
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Mar.15.2013
It's not difficult but we make it so.
The pathway to spiritual growth unfolds naturally.
It is the path of letting go. In the last blog, What Is Faith? I made the point that faith is the Divinely-given capacity to let go - to live in uncertainty, to give up control. The ego in you will almost...
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Mar.11.2013
As a writing teacher and coach, I often focus on ways to write faster and more efficiently. I teach techniques for generating ideas, writing when we only have five minutes, getting a fast start on our daily writing practice, and quickly identifying and correcting problems in our work. But lately I’...
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Mar.08.2013
I didn’t set out to post about the relationship between writing and meditation this week, but somehow I ended up doing it anyway—twice. Perhaps it’s because I’m working so diligently on my own meditation practice these days, trying to refresh and strengthen it. The way meditation can aid my writing...
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Mar.07.2013
For a long time, I saw meditation and writing as two separate parts of my life. Yes, I’d read Natalie Goldberg and loved her approach. And I’d done “free writing,” where I paid quiet attention to my thoughts and allowed them to flow onto the page. But when I was actually engaged in writing a...
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Mar.01.2013
This week, I blogged about why I’ve never had a guru. More specifically, I wrote about the misguided notion that some individuals have a special relationship with the Divine—whether that means they’ve achieved enlightenment, or Truth, or the ability to transform bread into the body of Christ. I...
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Feb.25.2013
I call myself a Zen Buddhist because Zen is the tradition that I find closest to my actual beliefs, and I practice zazen on an almost-daily basis, so, like all American Buddhists, I was troubled by the recent spate of sex scandals in Zen communities.
For those of you who don’t follow Zen...
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Feb.25.2013
OK, so this is all a little weird to me. My first blog as a blogger with BeliefNet. And, it feels like I'm starting all over. Which of course I am. Which makes it all the weirder. Which of course it is.
I mean, how do you just start up a new blog? I've been blogging for the Huffington Post,...
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Feb.22.2013
Among my favorite things to read are essays in which writers take specific spiritual practices and beliefs and apply them to writing. I am delighted on this Great Stuff for Writers Friday to share three superb blog posts that do exactly that. What feels like such a blessing about these posts is not...
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Feb.18.2013
For some reason, there are religions that believe dancing is somehow a bad thing. I could not disagree more. It is one of the healthiest endeavors one can engage in and it does not cost a thing. Shake a leg, twirl your arms, bounce, kick... move your body in a variety of ways. It's good for the...
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