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Love it, Hate it, Meh: Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement, part two
2In my last blog, I talked about the predictable phases of almost any spiritual practice, and how the mature phase of spiritual practice often is acquired only after traversing the mountain of fanaticism as well as the valley of profound disenchantment. In response to that …
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Spiritual Practice and Reactive Engagement
I’m spending the weekend at one of my spiritual homes, a place where I have deep roots, a place which has fed and nourished me over the years. I’ve been thinking about my other spiritual homes along the way–the Catholic church, into which I was …
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Chasing the First High
The phrase “chasing the first high” comes from addiction medicine, where the addict will return to a substance over and over again hoping to duplicate that first euphoric experience. But often, that first high is never to be had again. Subsequent experiences are never quite …
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Fallow Ground
Those of you who follow me closely may have noticed a drop-off in the frequency of my blog posts as of late. There’s a lot of my life energy being redirected into a new home, new location, new job, all of it requiring a certain …
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From Lust to Love
A new friend and brother asked me a question this week which serves as the fuel for today’s blog. He asked, in essence, “what first motivated you to meet and hug total strangers; what drove that, what were you seeking? And, as your “fetish” turned …
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The Power of Intention
When a sailor takes a boat out on a journey, there’s usually an aiming point, a destination, a course that has been charted. Only if the sailor is very lucky can one follow the wind directly to that destination; having the “wind at your back” …
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The last hug
This weekend’s blog is dedicated with affection to the beautiful, full-hearted men of the Tampa workshop. I’ve written much here about what I’ve learned from physically holding hundreds of men in 60-90 minute individual sessions. Much of that information I have gleaned from the “approach …
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Happy Endings!
As a precaution, this blog was written several days ago and set to auto-post at 12:01 AM Saturday, December 22, 2012. If I should be raptured on 12/21 (surely the result of a clerical error upstairs) then those of you who remain behind can read …
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