Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Rumi We live in a culture of perfectionism. We want to shed unwanted pounds, find the perfect mate, complete all the tasks on our to do list, and maybeContinue reading “Removing Obstacles”
Monthly Archives: August 2014
You are not alone.
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings… -excerpt from David Whyte’s “Everything is Waiting for You” David Whyte’s insightful poem remindsContinue reading “You are not alone.”
Ill-matched Threads
About fifteen years ago, a friend told me that, like a cat, I’d had nine lives. She was referring to the numerous eclectic experiences I’d had throughout my life: bible study leader, Jewish mother, Sufi, artist, poet, feminist academic, and homemaker. But as I look at my life now, I’m not quite sure I agree with her. Woven together, these “ill-matched threads” of my life tell the story of a woman’s search for deeper meaning and purpose. It just took me until my 40s to fully comprehend the continuity of my experience.
Tara Zafft, Ph.D. 