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Where there is smoke, there is fire. Isn’t that the old saying? And while it is fundamentally true, it doesn’t always hold true in the metaphorical. So many things are on fire and burning in our world, making life hazy and hard to see clearly from all the smoke clouding our eyes. Perceptions are skewed, as if the smoke only gives us a single path for our individual understanding. As if your idea is the only idea. As if your path is the one true path. As if your truth is

How do we heal what the world doesn’t want to look at? As a society, especially in the US, we are conditioned to believe that our emotions rule or dictate our experience. We believe there are good emotions and bad emotions. We are taught that there are things that are acceptable, and things we must hide and pretend don’t exist. We say things like “focus on the happy” and “all you need is love”, but we also believe “pleasure is shameful”. “It’s OK to not be OK”, but “don’t be

As I sit here in the aftermath of a break-in to our home, something occurs to me. We often talk about the "dark night of the soul" and...