Gary's Blog
This blog contains reflections from my journal. I am always interested in where others are in their lives in these matters of the soul, so if you are moved to share, please do so. Simply go to the Contact page, or leave a comment at the end of any of my entries. Meanwhile, blessings on your journey.
Below are links to the ten most recent entries. To view more, use the pagination menu at the bottom of each listing page.
Identity: Role, Activity, Love
…what motivates me to spend so much time involved with Sevenoaks Pathwork Center.
Entering Overwhelm
As I reenter my life after my New Year’s workshop experience, especially in reentering my organizational life in Sevenoaks and Pathwork, I find myself in a state of overwhelm.
Holding A New Inner Space for 2011
I was blessed, along with seven others, to participate in a five-day meditation workshop over the New Year’s holiday.
In the Absence of Love, I Choose Control
Pat remarked that anorexia is a control thing — the anorexic derives pleasure from being in control, in this case control of food intake. To this I responded, “In the absence of love we choose control.”
Choosing and Walking a Path
This is what my journey of late has felt like — the fear and trembling part. Not an anxiety kind of fear (though that too at times) but more like a force exploding from within.
Epiphany In My Path to Pathwork Helpership
I seemed always to have a great deal of trepidation, especially of leading, or rather, helping to lead work scenes of emotional processing.
Be Your God? Be the Christ?
At first the closing words of this lecture, “Be Your God. Be the Christ,” sound blasphemous.
A Christmas I Can Celebrate
… I left this Christ-in-Christmas story as part of a bigger issue for me, namely, “Gary, just who is this Jesus Christ in your life?”
Wrestling with Crises
…the purpose of crisis is to rock our boat. I am aware of just how much I do not want my boat to be rocked.
We are all doing the best we can!
Suddenly it arose in me, “We are each doing the best we can!” It felt powerful and true. But Pat was not comfortable with this claim. Pat asked, “Are we all really doing the best we can?”