For so many years I defined myself by standing out, by being iconoclastic. How did I become a person who wants to look like everyone else?
An astonishing fire blazes within. You must spill forth this light, or be consumed from inside. This is the sacred act of spark extraction. This is returning to the knowing in your bones.
Pay no attention to my complaints. This is one of the best decisions I ever made.
Hitbodedut (hisboididus, if you live in Brooklyn) is the practice of talking to G-d in your own words, also known as "personal prayer". The word means literally "self seclusion," but if you are like me (you don't have time or patience to sit in a room and talk to G-d) you can do it on the street.
If you want to be surrounded by light and holiness and positive talk, listen to the closest and most dedicated physical thing you own; your body .
I was made for breaking. I am built from the raw material of utter destruction, every fissure
bursting with crumpled petition.
Sometimes it's just so good to go to the bathroom. Not the act itself, but the act of leaving behind the world and making yourself alone.
There are times when your heart continuing to beat has to be enough.
When you use the power of self-involvement to focus on inner change, you can change the world. Literally.
You have been given a special gift: a mother's gut. Now you need to expose its beautiful power.
