We use the word “grounded” in many different ways. From a psychological perspective, to be grounded means that we are “down to earth” and don’t have our “head in the clouds.” There is a certain stability associated with being grounded, for the word implies a firm footing, or rootedness. When we are grounded we are…
Stillness in motion: like the center of a spinning record, the axis of the earth, or the body of a hummingbird hovering by a flower. It is nature’s paradox: motion without movement. God is like this as well. He is the vision which guides the process, the quiet that sifts the voice of truth, the…
Is God a blind and sleeping slug, an unconscious and amoral being whose only eyes are the eyes of man? Does he move about in a blundering stupor, waiting for man to take his hand and guide him to the path of Goodness? Are we God’s teacher, more noble than our creator, the grand and…
When you talk to someone you usually expect them to respond. You want a reply and feel it rude if they don’t. “Hey, I’m pursuing this train of thought here, what’s your opinion?” Maybe they don’t want to jump on your thought train. Probably there are times you wish you hadn’t climbed aboard theirs. God…
“Were it not a fact of experience that supreme values reside in the soul, psychology would not interest me in the least, for the soul would then be nothing but a miserable vapor.” Carl Jung In my post, “The Soul House,” I discussed how we live in two houses. One is a physical structure with a street address…
You were troubled and unhappy and so you sought therapy. Maybe you were depressed or couldn’t sleep. Maybe you were anxious or so distracted you couldn’t get anything done. Whatever your symptoms were, they motivated you to get help. You looked outside yourself for guidance and healing. In your therapy, if you were lucky, you…
