Announcing Creative Freedom in February!

I'm so happy to share with you that the classes are a hit. Folks are reporting both personal and professional benefits. Here's what some former participants said:

"Cool techniques, and, even better, ideas about how to apply and modify for my clients."

"I got so much out of this course and would love another opportunity -- it blew my expectations away!"


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Kissing His Picture


His toenails and teeth
are jewels of white light
my tongue longs to lick
the extent of, but

the longer I lick
the more there is
a chalice of limitless
honey I lower my
lips to and sip

until my body
dissolves into His

into luminous
skin, rich ...

(Originally published in the Stay Open Newsletter, Feb. 2010)


I've had something on my mind for days, mentally toying with me, showing up as thoughts that ask me about how I'm going to manipulate the future. As if I could ...

Ana Ram Callan is delighted to share with you the publication of her new book of poems, The Boy Who Would Be Sage. It is a chronicle of Indian mystic, Ramana Maharshi's life. Beginning with his birth in Tirichuzi in 1879, it covers his boyhood ...

So convinced, by habit, that there is something wrong, I flail to relax when the thoughts bully me, first thing in the morning, and again, later.

As inseparability becomes apparent, it does so in surprising ways.

Sitting at the table in Whole Foods this morning, my chai and pastels on the table in front of me, and the new Rolling Stone, with Steve Jobs on the cover. The mind goes on another ...

Opening your creative freedom . . .


I'm pleased to announce that registration is now open for

MARRY ME, HE SAID

 

And I shall wear a white dress

of lace and bird froth and a

veil of air, and a ring on my hand

of twined grasses twelve shades of moss,

and I shall sing thy name to the heavens,

my lover, my spouse, my man,

 

...

 

Freeing The Clouds

 

If Rama’s heart is the sky,

which it is to me,

then moon and sun

are his eyes, 

and together

 

they would dazzle,

 if not

blind us 

with their fierce light,

 

so in his ...

I went for a walk and found out that there is no such thing as thought.

Those of us who are on this so-called path (next we'll unfind that!) carry an assumption that there is an actual something called a thought, that is different from something called awareness or presence.

I've looked and have seen that actually awareness is not missing when what-we-call-thoughts are arising. How could it be ...