Category Archives: Reflections

The Assignment

You understand the assignment! If this is the beginning of the new, perfect age, my work is to quiet my mind, open my heart, and relieve suffering. Or if this is Armageddon, the end of the world, my work is to quiet my mind, open my heart, and relieve suffering. ~ Ram Dass No matter […]

Two Lines Inside You

How good can you stand it? How bad before you change it? There are two lines inside you. One marks how good life is allowed to feel. The other marks how bad it has to get before you are willing to change. Most people never see these lines, but they live inside them every day. […]

Two Journeys: One Return to Wholeness

Two Journey’s… One return to wholeness… Our arc is long, but it bends toward wholeness. Toward love. Toward integration. Toward the parts of you that were never meant to be left behind. And that arc is not abstract it lves inside you. There are two ancient movements within every human being. Two primal currents that […]

Staying Long Enough to See

The Presence Project keeps circling a simple, shimmering truth: wisdom is not the property of any one path. It is scattered like constellations across the long night of humanity, waiting for those willing to look up. For example…. In the christian story… The risen Christ appeared first to Mary Magdalene. Not to the twelve. Not […]

Learning How to Sit With Sadness

There are seasons in a human life when the ground gives way beneath your feet, like a floor that was never as solid as you believed. In those moments, something in us reaches to hold it all together. And often, it can’t. What’s striking is not that we fall into sadness. It’s that we’ve forgotten […]

Imagination Leading to Integration

Imagination is not a departure from reality but a deeper participation in it. Within the Presence Project, we understand the imaginal field as a living dimension of the psyche where meaning is not constructed through effort but revealed through relationship. When we slow down and enter this space with openness, images, sensations, and inner narratives […]

Seeking Those Who Are Awake

Some say people are all alikeSome say there are two kinds of people in the world those that divide people into two groups and those who don’t…. 😂 Some others, a bit wiser, say there are three kinds… those who are fast asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake. If you try […]

How to Feel When You Forget

Sit or lie down in a way that doesn’t require effort.Close your eyes and take a slow breath in through your nose, then let it fall out of your mouth. Do that a few times, like you’re putting down a weight you didn’t realize you were carrying.Shift your attention away from your thoughts and into […]

Courage to Grow

When last we met Presence Project family, we planted our seeds, sunflower seeds, what we wanted to grow with intention. I am so curious whether they have started to grow… both the seeds and the intentions. There’s a courage in planting sunflower seeds. They don’t hide what they’re here to do. They rise fast. They […]

The Power of Presence in Sacred Relationship

The feminine heart longs to open. This is not weakness.This is power. At her deepest core, a woman yearns to give herself… fully.Her body, her love, her devotion… offered without hesitation to a man who meets her with unwavering presence. But she cannot open in chaos. She cannot surrender into uncertainty. She opens in response […]