(or why "Manifesting" is so damn limited) Someone wrote me recently to say she loved "Outrageous Openness" but found since she read it sometimes things got much HARDER for a bit...until they became more peaceful and easy. She finally had a companion she could trust in the Divine. She wondered if I'd comment. Yes and yes! The book is all about Offering: surrendering agendas to Love Itself. And honestly, sometimes when you sincerely do this a period of loneliness or even emptiness comes while god REMOVES what no longer works. Believe me, this has happened to me plenty!! There's an...

(or The Joy of Letting Go) In Sanskrit, tapas means the suffering you feel as you learn to surrender to the Divine. It’s the cosmic fire that burns away the impurities that make us chase, manipulate, and grab. Tapas can be painful as all heck cuz it’s actually the purification of the ego. But as the small self offers itself to that Divine flame, over and over, it begins to let go, like a hard fist that opens. Or a flower. In Spanish, tapas are another deal. You know, they’re those little dishes from Spain that are so delicious :))...

I’ve been getting this message a lot lately so I’ll tell you how I mean it. Because on the one hand, everything, of course, is one dazzling miracle after another. In the right consciousness, just that you can blink your eyes, pet a cat, or chew an apple is utterly stunning. But sometimes we give up right before something amazing is about to occur. I’ve sure done that at times in my life. Giving up in the sense of surrendering all to the Divine, is a wonderful thing. Then the right actions always get shown. That’s the focus of most...

I often get stories of how this work impacts people's lives, but rarely one as eloquent as this. I wanted to share how one woman's openness, and continued attention to the practice of the living with surrender and offering to the Divine, brought a new way of being into her life. Let me introduce Annika Martins! The Book That Inspired Me to Cancel the Sacred Conference This sentence sums up my approach to goal-setting: I will make it happen. This sentence sums up my approach to problem-solving: I will fix it. I have a long track record of getting shit...

I honestly don’t try to manifest a thing. Learning tricks to ‘get more of what the small self wants’ feels empty, since I deeply want the Divine to take over. To me, that Love itself can be invited to use and fill ANY of us, more and more each day, is ridiculously exciting. The rest is icing on the cake. Even during crazy times (and omg, I’ve had plenty) there’s a reliable prayer. “Ok, God, I don’t know why this is happening, but just take me over, show the way. Show me the actions. Make me open, make me Yours....