by SB Rawz | Apr 24, 2022 | The Deep Dive
Thirty-six hours after I proposed to Theresa in 2019, I noticed my inner critics, my Innerlings, get loud and ornery. They told me things like that I should be embarrassed to announce my engagement given my previous divorce; they asked me how I had the gall to imagine... by SB Rawz | Mar 21, 2022 | The Deep Dive
There’s an old Zen story that gets a lot of traction in the world of personal development. You’ve probably heard it before. It goes a little something like this: See, there’s this farmer in this village. He’s got this horse who is integral to his ability to run his... by SB Rawz | Feb 7, 2022 | Our Web of Interconnection
Many years ago – another lifetime it sometimes seems – a friendship of more than a decade ended. Truthfully, it had been fading for some time by then. Still, it wasn’t me who pulled the plug when my friend took up with a married man. It was she who, underwhelmed with... by SB Rawz | May 31, 2021 | The Deep Dive
Last week, I meditated for the first time in a month. That’s not bad for me these days. I first seriously sat in meditation eight years ago today, on May 31, 2013, and have gone through phases of daily or nearly-daily meditation and these days it’s a box that goes... by SB Rawz | Sep 7, 2020 | The Deep Dive
In her memoir Why Religion? Elaine Pagels described noticing that she’s attracted to a female friend. A little background on her: Raised by atheist parents, she chose Christianity as both a faith tradition and focus of scholarship in her early adulthood,...