Initial Rumblings

- a long-lived intuition of something more;
- the impulse to be authentically oneself;
- striving to find one's place in the world;

- exploring questions of identity and calling;
- the danger of sharing one's deepest heart;
- risking everything for what matters most;
- one of our deepest fears is the unlived life;

Secrets of the Heart

- gathering onself for the adventure that awaits;
- allowing truth to go wherever it needs to go;
- holding to integrity in the unexpected storm; 
- encountering what we actually fear the most;
- anguish, loss, and the moment of surrender;
- implosion of all structures of self-protection;
- sometimes there's no resistance left to offer;
- love is an energy field, not an emotion;
- nakedness, vulnerability, and the broken heart;
- familiar reference points are all stripped away;
- an inability to re-create distance from what is;
- what a relief to be a real, simple human being;
- open to the tension and suffering in the world;
- whatever is going on must be what i asked for;
- noticing something "sacred" in the atmosphere;
- giving oneself to what is now trying to happen;

A New Life Emerges Out of the Ashes

- deep silence, inquiry and the flow of knowing;
- encountering the repressed contents of mind;
- choosing love as a guide through destruction;
- learning to listen to life in an imaginative way;
- embracing the language and wisdom of dreams;
- rediscovering the link between voice and heart;
- this intimate unfoldment has to be lived through;
- not a day goes by without a test of some kind;
- how much of reality can you really show up for;
- synchronicity, magic, and the nonlinear reality;
- death as a portal to a larger, unseen reality;
- creation moves from the invisible to the visible;
- group work as an experimental practice field;
- exploring the subtle dimensions of leadership; 
- integrity, spontaneity, and "living on the verge";

Exploring the Deeper Potentials of the Heart

- whatever wants to happen is what i'm here for;
- entering back into the heart of the wound;
- listening deeply into the space beyond words;
- waiting for that one truth we are ready to hear;
- what if there is no such thing as a spiritual path;
- you never know how radical truth can really be;  
- relying on the validity of one's direct experience;
- sinking more deeply into the felt sense of being;
- entering into the chaos of the creative process;
- glimpses of movement without personal volition;

- an abrupt turning inward of the discursive mind;

- a few final images before perception disappears;

-  adjusting to the indescribable quiet of no-mind;

- a view of the mind from a boundless perspective;
- a deeper, silent watcher appears on the scene;

- all subjective awareness bending back on itself;

- the indescribable thrill and delight of remembrance;
- the eternal reality is not just a poetic expression;

- something other than the “me” is actually awake;

- all individuality has collapsed into the uncreated;
- implicit freedom, wonder, and mystery of what is;

- the revelation of divinity in an interactive context;
- the catalytic, healing power of the core essence;

- "coming back" and a return of the functional self;
- adjustment, integration and working with the light.

(to be continued!)