Nov 27, 2022 https://www.assistthespirit.com/a-doorway-within-wide-open/ I stood at the end of a pier, drinking it in… The snow-capped Olympics glistened over Puget Sound from end to end on this particularly warm evening in April. Rigging on hundreds of boats tinkled casually amid an occasional seagull’s cry, and in the distance … as is common if you […]
Jonathan Van Valin: Why Do Great Pain And Great Love Wake Us Up?
Why Do Great Pain And Great Love Wake Us Up? Jonathan Van Valin, Nov 8, 2021 (https://www.assistthespirit .com/why-do-great-pain -and-great-love-wake-us-up/) Pain shows us the way by showing us what we are not. Love shows us the way by showing us what we ARE. Pain demands our attention; sometimes spectacularly so. Ultimately it drives us to ask: […]
An Ode To The Incarcerated Soul Seeking Freedom
Oct 8, 2021 (https://www.assistthespirit.com/poetry-of-the-incarcerated/) Perhaps it’s been years and years since one has even thought of it… yet, at some point there arose a curious thought about the distant past: That one had put oneself in the cage. Put oneself there?!? It had always seemed like it was just the way it was. That one […]
How Does Awakening & Healing Really Happen?
How Does Awakening & Healing Really Happen? Feb 20, 2021 (https://www.assistthespirit.com/how-does-healing-happen/) What appears to be a healing process is like a lighthouse guiding a ship to safety. The lighthouse doesn’t choose where it’s light falls… In fact, it doesn’t do much of anything. It just shines. It doesn’t really have any “will” of its own. […]