Enjoy the Contradiction

"I've come to believe that part of being who I am is being uncomfortable."

~ Claire Hoffman

Daron LarsonAugust 25, 2016Claire Hoffman, Transcendental Meditation, meditation, memoir, religion, belief, doubt, community, family, growing up, fundamentalismComment

More Mysterious

"When you penetrate a mystery, it doesn’t become less mysterious. It becomes, if anything, more mysterious."

~ Stephen Batchelor

Lost within the Space Between

"Finding the dickhead inside [lead to] actually finding quite a liberation."

~ Damien Rice

Daron LarsonSeptember 14, 2015Damien Rice, music, doubt, hate, conflict, love, power, shame, questions, thoughts, imagination, certainty, liberation Comment

This Primal Commitment

What happens when, just for a moment, we stay with our pain, our fear, our doubt, our discomfort, our grief, our broken heart, even our numbness, without trying to change it, or fix it, or numb ourselves to it, or get rid of it in any way? What happens when, even when we feel like leaving, abandoning the moment for the promise of a future salvation, we stay, sitting with the raw, unfiltered, boundlessly alive life-energy that is simply trying to express right now?

~ Jeff Foster

Feel In, Clarity, Equanimity, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonNovember 18, 2014Jeff Foster, suffering, emotions, feeling, life, resistance, uncertainty, grief, death, doubt, discomfortComment

A Vital Part of Aliveness

"One of the beautiful things about the early twilight at this time of year, as it fades into the dark of the long nights, is that you can just surrender yourself to it. Allow the twilight to remind you that it is a time of consideration and renewal. Know full well that in this world the darkness and the light are one. There is no new dawn without the night; their seeming separateness disguises a unity that reflects the unity of life, an unfathomable dance of opposites. This paradox is the very essence of what it is to be alive—joy and pain, sickness and health, light and dark, wonder and fear."

~ Phillip Moffitt

Practice in LifeDaron LarsonOctober 13, 2014Phillip Moffitt, change, life, transitions, decision-making, doubt, past, present, future, suffering, photography, David PloskonkaComment

The Best Possible Conditions

Daron LarsonMarch 29, 2014Anne Lamott, God, authenticity, doubt, humanity, kindness, prayer, ritual, vulnerability, writersComment

The Best Possible Conditions

Daron LarsonMarch 27, 2014Anne Lamott, God, authenticity, doubt, humanity, kindness, prayer, ritual, vulnerability, writersComment

To Create and Thrive from that Place Where all Feelings Reside

"We naturally long to sequester our doubts and fears, to disavow pain and worry. Unfortunately, to vanquish doubt is to leave the domain of the human being. Conversely, to embrace both one’s doubt and faith, one’s fear and courage, is to relate to the totality of the human experience."

~ Dennis Palumbo