There are questions that emerge in my soulful conversations with others. What is a soulmate? Is there such a thing? How do I know whether I have met my beloved in human form? Will I in this lifetime? In the great beyond? In the next life? It is doubtless that Lou Andreas-Salomé was a woman [...]
I have been intrigued by the sources of inspiration of our great poets (Dante’s Beatrice, for instance) and how their muses have been interpreted—and often distorted— by various accounts of historians who have their own agendas. The Emily Dickinson who has come down to us appears more as a nun than a woman, who must [...]
Although a number of my clients are artists in the most common understanding of that term, one of my favorite no-nonsense writers of authentic living, don Miguel Ruiz, connects being an artist with creating one’s life with love. Every one of us are called to this most noble—and sometimes risky and unconventional— of ta
A frequent word I hear in many conversations where others are engaged in locating a higher, deeper, or more essential purpose for themselves is the term “synchronicity.” One of my favorite writers today—Paulo Coelho— speaks to those moments when we sense a timeliness or coordination of certain events in our lives
One of the questions I hear often in my mentoring of clients—especially during crisis moments in their lives is: “How to become authentic? For most of my life it appears I’ve been living everyone else’s but my own.” The 19th century thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, answered these questions of urgency this
