Michael Murphy turned 95 yesterday on September 3rd. To celebrate a lifetime of creative contributions, we’re revisiting a few of his literary works. Whether you're inspired to read his mystical novels or dig into some rigorous analytic nonfiction, Michael’s visionary writing is fueled by the same joyful curiosity that has helped to shape Esalen. If you’re planning to come for a workshop in September and October, you might cross paths with Michael as he will be on campus both months.
Michael Murphy, co-founder of Esalen, author, and philosopher, has spent a lifetime exploring the deepest questions of human potential, consciousness, and the mysteries of life after death. His extraordinary vision helped establish the birthplace of the Human Potential Movement — sparking a revolution in thought and practice.
Alongside his wife, Dulce, he has been a driving force in back-channel diplomacy through Track II. Their work has fostered improbable dialogues: between Americans and Soviets at the height of the Cold War, Arabs and Israelis across divides, and with China and Pacific Rim nations on pressing planetary concerns.
Michael is both seeker and catalyst. Through Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) and the Center for Theory & Research (CTR), he has created spaces for inquiry, creativity, and dialogue — safe containers where academics, spiritual leaders, and political figures can ask daring questions often constrained by their institutions.
As an author, Michael’s work often combines mystical insight with playful wonder. Across several titles, he has created unforgettable characters, crafted thrilling plots, and explored subtle bodies, reincarnation, peak performance, and landscapes of consciousness with the same rigor and imagination that made him a global thought leader.
His writing asks big questions: What happens after we die? How do subtle bodies shape our experience? How can humans awaken to their fullest potential? Michael’s 95 years remind us that life’s deepest mysteries are also its most compelling offerings for exploration, wonderment, and transformation.
To honor more than half a century of creative contributions, we’re taking a closer look at a few of his most notable literary creations. Whatever the genre — the mystical novels, his practical guide for transformation, or some analytic nonfiction — you’ll find every page fueled by the same joyful curiosity that helped shape Esalen Institute. We’ll start with the bestseller that has changed lives (along with countless drives, chips, and puts) for decades: “Norman Mailer said every writer gets one book that is a gift from God, and Golf in the Kingdom was mine.”
“It came like a flood.” This is how Michael described the creation of his best-selling novel, written just a handful of years after the founding of Esalen and inspired by personal journals he rediscovered. At age 25, Michael traveled to an ashram in Pondicherry to study Sri Aurobindo's philosophies concerning humanity and its cosmic evolution, which influenced his own thoughts on Zen, athleticism, and human potential. On the way to India, the real-life Michael stopped at St. Andrews — golf’s birthplace/Holy Land — for a quick round, just as his autobiographical novel’s protagonist, “Michael Murphy,” hits the “Burningbush Links” before his travels. This is where he meets golf pro Shivas Irons for a metaphysical adventure and life-changing game. That word, “game,” however, is made something of a misnomer by this story, in which golf is both the metaphor and the medium for spiritual growth. To list all the book’s accolades and praise — as well as institutions it has inspired — would take too many pages, but we’ll quote another great writer, John Updike, who simply called it, “a golf classic if any exists in our day.”
In the following years, Michael would write two mind-explanding and connected novels, perhaps best understood as “occult realism.” Jeffrey Kripal clarifies the term in Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion as “a particular genre of novel writing whose imaginative fusing of the mystical (“occult”) and empirical (“realism”) dimensions of anomalous experiences ends up conjuring for the reader a fantastic world in which many strange and marvelous things can (and oddly do) happen.” In Jacob Atabet, journalist Darwin Fall meets the extraordinary titular character, an artist with a gift for psychophysical transformation, as he investigates the limits of human potential. In An End to Ordinary History, a Cold War thriller, Fall tracks down a Soviet spy to uncover a deep conspiracy to bring about a future evolution, connecting the CIA, KGB, and unexplained sightings and enigmas from around the globe. With his unique style and own brand of mystical realism, Michael intertwines fiction and fact for thrilling, entertaining tales that somehow explore the true phenomena and real events invisible to almost all, except those watching most closely.
Michael took a break from fiction for a staggeringly comprehensive cross-cultural examination of extraordinary mental, physical, and spiritual feats — an “obsessively researched” overview of the transformative and “metanormal” capacities of human nature. Structured into three sections (“Possibilities for Extraordinary Life,'' “Evidence for Human Transformative Capacity,” and ”Transformative Practices”) with 12 categories of extraordinary capacities, this encyclopedic tome draws on seemingly innumerable sources and a lifetime of research to make up nearly 800 pages of meticulously documented scholarship. (The bibliography appears long enough to fill a local library.) Though it’s difficult to articulate the effect of something with such extraordinary reach, this review from Kirkus came close: “...even a casual dipping into his text, which will no doubt become a primary source for future mind-body investigation, will reveal a world of inspiring wonders..”
Motivated by this belief that we each possess a “vast, untapped potential to learn, to love, to feel deeply, and to create,” Michael and award-winning journalist, author, and former Esalen president George Leonard — “An all-around wizard friend, not only for me but for Esalen” — developed a practical spiritual framework, which first started as a two-year experimental class at Esalen: Integral Transformative Practice. In 1995, the pair made it accessible to the public with this definitive explanation of the story and philosophy of ITP. Though the tenets are deceptively simple, starting with ”Lasting transformation requires lasting change,” TLWAG offers a living platform for growth, well-being, and evolution that continues to change lives today. (Pamela Kramer, president of ITP International, will be leading a workshop this November on campus.)
Twenty-five years after the publication of GitK, Michael revisits his famous fictitious Burningbush course, prompted in part by the many stories involving mystical golf experiences he’d heard over the intervening years. Though he returns to Scotland in search of Shivas and the wisdom he once received (and perhaps the elusive Seamus MacDuff), he instead encounters those whose lives were profoundly changed by Golf in the Kingdom before heading to the first Russian Open Golf Championship and returning to California’s Pebble Beach. While detailing this journey with humor and wit, Michael fills the sequel’s pages with deep thoughts about life, golf’s “hidden but accessible meaning,” and those elusive moments of transcendence one can find within a good swing — achieving the same magical effects as a quarter century earlier.
“Remembering to be as self compassionate as I can and praying to the divine that we're all a part of.”
–Aaron
“Prayer, reading, meditation, walking.”
–Karen
“Erratically — which is an ongoing stream of practice to find peace.”
–Charles
“Try on a daily basis to be kind to myself and to realize that making mistakes is a part of the human condition. Learning from our mistakes is a journey. But it starts with compassion and caring. First for oneself.”
–Steve
“Physically: aerobic exercise, volleyball, ice hockey, cycling, sailing. Emotionally: unfortunately I have to work to ‘not care’ about people or situations which may end painfully. Along the lines of ‘attachment is the source of suffering’, so best to avoid it or limit its scope. Sad though because it could also be the source of great joy. Is it worth the risk?“
–Rainer
“It's time for my heart to be nurtured on one level yet contained on another. To go easy on me and to allow my feelings to be validated, not judged harshly. On the other hand, to let the heart rule with equanimity and not lead the mind and body around like a master.”
–Suzanne
“I spend time thinking of everything I am grateful for, and I try to develop my ability to express compassion for myself and others without reservation. I take time to do the things I need to do to keep myself healthy and happy. This includes taking experiential workshops, fostering relationships, and participating within groups which have a similar interest to become a more compassionate and fulfilled being.“
–Peter
“Self-forgiveness for my own judgments. And oh yeah, coming to Esalen.”
–David B.
“Hmm, this is a tough one! I guess I take care of my heart through fostering relationships with people I feel connected to. Spending quality time with them (whether we're on the phone, through messages/letters, on Zoom, or in-person). Being there for them, listening to them, sharing what's going on with me, my struggles and my successes... like we do in the Esalen weekly Friends of Esalen Zoom sessions!”
–Lori
“I remind myself in many ways of the fact that " Love is all there is!" LOVE is the prize and this one precious life is the stage we get to learn our lessons. I get out into nature, hike, camp, river kayak, fly fish, garden, I create, I dance (not enough!), and I remain grateful for each day, each breath, each moment. Being in the moment, awake, and remembering the gift of life and my feeling of gratitude for all of creation.”
–Steven
“My physical heart by limiting stress and eating a heart-healthy diet. My emotional heart by staying in love with the world and by knowing that all disappointment and loss will pass.“
–David Z.
Today, September 29, is World Heart Day. Strike up a conversation with your own heart and as you feel comfortable, encourage others to do the same. As part of our own transformations and self-care, we sometimes ask for others to illuminate and enliven our hearts or speak our love language.
What if we could do this for ourselves too, even if just for today… or to start a heart practice, forever?
Photo: Kate Kondratieva
Michael Murphy turned 95 yesterday on September 3rd. To celebrate a lifetime of creative contributions, we’re revisiting a few of his literary works. Whether you're inspired to read his mystical novels or dig into some rigorous analytic nonfiction, Michael’s visionary writing is fueled by the same joyful curiosity that has helped to shape Esalen. If you’re planning to come for a workshop in September and October, you might cross paths with Michael as he will be on campus both months.
Michael Murphy, co-founder of Esalen, author, and philosopher, has spent a lifetime exploring the deepest questions of human potential, consciousness, and the mysteries of life after death. His extraordinary vision helped establish the birthplace of the Human Potential Movement — sparking a revolution in thought and practice.
Alongside his wife, Dulce, he has been a driving force in back-channel diplomacy through Track II. Their work has fostered improbable dialogues: between Americans and Soviets at the height of the Cold War, Arabs and Israelis across divides, and with China and Pacific Rim nations on pressing planetary concerns.
Michael is both seeker and catalyst. Through Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) and the Center for Theory & Research (CTR), he has created spaces for inquiry, creativity, and dialogue — safe containers where academics, spiritual leaders, and political figures can ask daring questions often constrained by their institutions.
As an author, Michael’s work often combines mystical insight with playful wonder. Across several titles, he has created unforgettable characters, crafted thrilling plots, and explored subtle bodies, reincarnation, peak performance, and landscapes of consciousness with the same rigor and imagination that made him a global thought leader.
His writing asks big questions: What happens after we die? How do subtle bodies shape our experience? How can humans awaken to their fullest potential? Michael’s 95 years remind us that life’s deepest mysteries are also its most compelling offerings for exploration, wonderment, and transformation.
To honor more than half a century of creative contributions, we’re taking a closer look at a few of his most notable literary creations. Whatever the genre — the mystical novels, his practical guide for transformation, or some analytic nonfiction — you’ll find every page fueled by the same joyful curiosity that helped shape Esalen Institute. We’ll start with the bestseller that has changed lives (along with countless drives, chips, and puts) for decades: “Norman Mailer said every writer gets one book that is a gift from God, and Golf in the Kingdom was mine.”
“It came like a flood.” This is how Michael described the creation of his best-selling novel, written just a handful of years after the founding of Esalen and inspired by personal journals he rediscovered. At age 25, Michael traveled to an ashram in Pondicherry to study Sri Aurobindo's philosophies concerning humanity and its cosmic evolution, which influenced his own thoughts on Zen, athleticism, and human potential. On the way to India, the real-life Michael stopped at St. Andrews — golf’s birthplace/Holy Land — for a quick round, just as his autobiographical novel’s protagonist, “Michael Murphy,” hits the “Burningbush Links” before his travels. This is where he meets golf pro Shivas Irons for a metaphysical adventure and life-changing game. That word, “game,” however, is made something of a misnomer by this story, in which golf is both the metaphor and the medium for spiritual growth. To list all the book’s accolades and praise — as well as institutions it has inspired — would take too many pages, but we’ll quote another great writer, John Updike, who simply called it, “a golf classic if any exists in our day.”
In the following years, Michael would write two mind-explanding and connected novels, perhaps best understood as “occult realism.” Jeffrey Kripal clarifies the term in Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion as “a particular genre of novel writing whose imaginative fusing of the mystical (“occult”) and empirical (“realism”) dimensions of anomalous experiences ends up conjuring for the reader a fantastic world in which many strange and marvelous things can (and oddly do) happen.” In Jacob Atabet, journalist Darwin Fall meets the extraordinary titular character, an artist with a gift for psychophysical transformation, as he investigates the limits of human potential. In An End to Ordinary History, a Cold War thriller, Fall tracks down a Soviet spy to uncover a deep conspiracy to bring about a future evolution, connecting the CIA, KGB, and unexplained sightings and enigmas from around the globe. With his unique style and own brand of mystical realism, Michael intertwines fiction and fact for thrilling, entertaining tales that somehow explore the true phenomena and real events invisible to almost all, except those watching most closely.
Michael took a break from fiction for a staggeringly comprehensive cross-cultural examination of extraordinary mental, physical, and spiritual feats — an “obsessively researched” overview of the transformative and “metanormal” capacities of human nature. Structured into three sections (“Possibilities for Extraordinary Life,'' “Evidence for Human Transformative Capacity,” and ”Transformative Practices”) with 12 categories of extraordinary capacities, this encyclopedic tome draws on seemingly innumerable sources and a lifetime of research to make up nearly 800 pages of meticulously documented scholarship. (The bibliography appears long enough to fill a local library.) Though it’s difficult to articulate the effect of something with such extraordinary reach, this review from Kirkus came close: “...even a casual dipping into his text, which will no doubt become a primary source for future mind-body investigation, will reveal a world of inspiring wonders..”
Motivated by this belief that we each possess a “vast, untapped potential to learn, to love, to feel deeply, and to create,” Michael and award-winning journalist, author, and former Esalen president George Leonard — “An all-around wizard friend, not only for me but for Esalen” — developed a practical spiritual framework, which first started as a two-year experimental class at Esalen: Integral Transformative Practice. In 1995, the pair made it accessible to the public with this definitive explanation of the story and philosophy of ITP. Though the tenets are deceptively simple, starting with ”Lasting transformation requires lasting change,” TLWAG offers a living platform for growth, well-being, and evolution that continues to change lives today. (Pamela Kramer, president of ITP International, will be leading a workshop this November on campus.)
Twenty-five years after the publication of GitK, Michael revisits his famous fictitious Burningbush course, prompted in part by the many stories involving mystical golf experiences he’d heard over the intervening years. Though he returns to Scotland in search of Shivas and the wisdom he once received (and perhaps the elusive Seamus MacDuff), he instead encounters those whose lives were profoundly changed by Golf in the Kingdom before heading to the first Russian Open Golf Championship and returning to California’s Pebble Beach. While detailing this journey with humor and wit, Michael fills the sequel’s pages with deep thoughts about life, golf’s “hidden but accessible meaning,” and those elusive moments of transcendence one can find within a good swing — achieving the same magical effects as a quarter century earlier.
Photo: Kate Kondratieva
“Remembering to be as self compassionate as I can and praying to the divine that we're all a part of.”
–Aaron
“Prayer, reading, meditation, walking.”
–Karen
“Erratically — which is an ongoing stream of practice to find peace.”
–Charles
“Try on a daily basis to be kind to myself and to realize that making mistakes is a part of the human condition. Learning from our mistakes is a journey. But it starts with compassion and caring. First for oneself.”
–Steve
“Physically: aerobic exercise, volleyball, ice hockey, cycling, sailing. Emotionally: unfortunately I have to work to ‘not care’ about people or situations which may end painfully. Along the lines of ‘attachment is the source of suffering’, so best to avoid it or limit its scope. Sad though because it could also be the source of great joy. Is it worth the risk?“
–Rainer
“It's time for my heart to be nurtured on one level yet contained on another. To go easy on me and to allow my feelings to be validated, not judged harshly. On the other hand, to let the heart rule with equanimity and not lead the mind and body around like a master.”
–Suzanne
“I spend time thinking of everything I am grateful for, and I try to develop my ability to express compassion for myself and others without reservation. I take time to do the things I need to do to keep myself healthy and happy. This includes taking experiential workshops, fostering relationships, and participating within groups which have a similar interest to become a more compassionate and fulfilled being.“
–Peter
“Self-forgiveness for my own judgments. And oh yeah, coming to Esalen.”
–David B.
“Hmm, this is a tough one! I guess I take care of my heart through fostering relationships with people I feel connected to. Spending quality time with them (whether we're on the phone, through messages/letters, on Zoom, or in-person). Being there for them, listening to them, sharing what's going on with me, my struggles and my successes... like we do in the Esalen weekly Friends of Esalen Zoom sessions!”
–Lori
“I remind myself in many ways of the fact that " Love is all there is!" LOVE is the prize and this one precious life is the stage we get to learn our lessons. I get out into nature, hike, camp, river kayak, fly fish, garden, I create, I dance (not enough!), and I remain grateful for each day, each breath, each moment. Being in the moment, awake, and remembering the gift of life and my feeling of gratitude for all of creation.”
–Steven
“My physical heart by limiting stress and eating a heart-healthy diet. My emotional heart by staying in love with the world and by knowing that all disappointment and loss will pass.“
–David Z.
Today, September 29, is World Heart Day. Strike up a conversation with your own heart and as you feel comfortable, encourage others to do the same. As part of our own transformations and self-care, we sometimes ask for others to illuminate and enliven our hearts or speak our love language.
What if we could do this for ourselves too, even if just for today… or to start a heart practice, forever?
Michael Murphy turned 95 yesterday on September 3rd. To celebrate a lifetime of creative contributions, we’re revisiting a few of his literary works. Whether you're inspired to read his mystical novels or dig into some rigorous analytic nonfiction, Michael’s visionary writing is fueled by the same joyful curiosity that has helped to shape Esalen. If you’re planning to come for a workshop in September and October, you might cross paths with Michael as he will be on campus both months.
Michael Murphy, co-founder of Esalen, author, and philosopher, has spent a lifetime exploring the deepest questions of human potential, consciousness, and the mysteries of life after death. His extraordinary vision helped establish the birthplace of the Human Potential Movement — sparking a revolution in thought and practice.
Alongside his wife, Dulce, he has been a driving force in back-channel diplomacy through Track II. Their work has fostered improbable dialogues: between Americans and Soviets at the height of the Cold War, Arabs and Israelis across divides, and with China and Pacific Rim nations on pressing planetary concerns.
Michael is both seeker and catalyst. Through Integral Transformative Practice (ITP) and the Center for Theory & Research (CTR), he has created spaces for inquiry, creativity, and dialogue — safe containers where academics, spiritual leaders, and political figures can ask daring questions often constrained by their institutions.
As an author, Michael’s work often combines mystical insight with playful wonder. Across several titles, he has created unforgettable characters, crafted thrilling plots, and explored subtle bodies, reincarnation, peak performance, and landscapes of consciousness with the same rigor and imagination that made him a global thought leader.
His writing asks big questions: What happens after we die? How do subtle bodies shape our experience? How can humans awaken to their fullest potential? Michael’s 95 years remind us that life’s deepest mysteries are also its most compelling offerings for exploration, wonderment, and transformation.
To honor more than half a century of creative contributions, we’re taking a closer look at a few of his most notable literary creations. Whatever the genre — the mystical novels, his practical guide for transformation, or some analytic nonfiction — you’ll find every page fueled by the same joyful curiosity that helped shape Esalen Institute. We’ll start with the bestseller that has changed lives (along with countless drives, chips, and puts) for decades: “Norman Mailer said every writer gets one book that is a gift from God, and Golf in the Kingdom was mine.”
“It came like a flood.” This is how Michael described the creation of his best-selling novel, written just a handful of years after the founding of Esalen and inspired by personal journals he rediscovered. At age 25, Michael traveled to an ashram in Pondicherry to study Sri Aurobindo's philosophies concerning humanity and its cosmic evolution, which influenced his own thoughts on Zen, athleticism, and human potential. On the way to India, the real-life Michael stopped at St. Andrews — golf’s birthplace/Holy Land — for a quick round, just as his autobiographical novel’s protagonist, “Michael Murphy,” hits the “Burningbush Links” before his travels. This is where he meets golf pro Shivas Irons for a metaphysical adventure and life-changing game. That word, “game,” however, is made something of a misnomer by this story, in which golf is both the metaphor and the medium for spiritual growth. To list all the book’s accolades and praise — as well as institutions it has inspired — would take too many pages, but we’ll quote another great writer, John Updike, who simply called it, “a golf classic if any exists in our day.”
In the following years, Michael would write two mind-explanding and connected novels, perhaps best understood as “occult realism.” Jeffrey Kripal clarifies the term in Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion as “a particular genre of novel writing whose imaginative fusing of the mystical (“occult”) and empirical (“realism”) dimensions of anomalous experiences ends up conjuring for the reader a fantastic world in which many strange and marvelous things can (and oddly do) happen.” In Jacob Atabet, journalist Darwin Fall meets the extraordinary titular character, an artist with a gift for psychophysical transformation, as he investigates the limits of human potential. In An End to Ordinary History, a Cold War thriller, Fall tracks down a Soviet spy to uncover a deep conspiracy to bring about a future evolution, connecting the CIA, KGB, and unexplained sightings and enigmas from around the globe. With his unique style and own brand of mystical realism, Michael intertwines fiction and fact for thrilling, entertaining tales that somehow explore the true phenomena and real events invisible to almost all, except those watching most closely.
Michael took a break from fiction for a staggeringly comprehensive cross-cultural examination of extraordinary mental, physical, and spiritual feats — an “obsessively researched” overview of the transformative and “metanormal” capacities of human nature. Structured into three sections (“Possibilities for Extraordinary Life,'' “Evidence for Human Transformative Capacity,” and ”Transformative Practices”) with 12 categories of extraordinary capacities, this encyclopedic tome draws on seemingly innumerable sources and a lifetime of research to make up nearly 800 pages of meticulously documented scholarship. (The bibliography appears long enough to fill a local library.) Though it’s difficult to articulate the effect of something with such extraordinary reach, this review from Kirkus came close: “...even a casual dipping into his text, which will no doubt become a primary source for future mind-body investigation, will reveal a world of inspiring wonders..”
Motivated by this belief that we each possess a “vast, untapped potential to learn, to love, to feel deeply, and to create,” Michael and award-winning journalist, author, and former Esalen president George Leonard — “An all-around wizard friend, not only for me but for Esalen” — developed a practical spiritual framework, which first started as a two-year experimental class at Esalen: Integral Transformative Practice. In 1995, the pair made it accessible to the public with this definitive explanation of the story and philosophy of ITP. Though the tenets are deceptively simple, starting with ”Lasting transformation requires lasting change,” TLWAG offers a living platform for growth, well-being, and evolution that continues to change lives today. (Pamela Kramer, president of ITP International, will be leading a workshop this November on campus.)
Twenty-five years after the publication of GitK, Michael revisits his famous fictitious Burningbush course, prompted in part by the many stories involving mystical golf experiences he’d heard over the intervening years. Though he returns to Scotland in search of Shivas and the wisdom he once received (and perhaps the elusive Seamus MacDuff), he instead encounters those whose lives were profoundly changed by Golf in the Kingdom before heading to the first Russian Open Golf Championship and returning to California’s Pebble Beach. While detailing this journey with humor and wit, Michael fills the sequel’s pages with deep thoughts about life, golf’s “hidden but accessible meaning,” and those elusive moments of transcendence one can find within a good swing — achieving the same magical effects as a quarter century earlier.
“Remembering to be as self compassionate as I can and praying to the divine that we're all a part of.”
–Aaron
“Prayer, reading, meditation, walking.”
–Karen
“Erratically — which is an ongoing stream of practice to find peace.”
–Charles
“Try on a daily basis to be kind to myself and to realize that making mistakes is a part of the human condition. Learning from our mistakes is a journey. But it starts with compassion and caring. First for oneself.”
–Steve
“Physically: aerobic exercise, volleyball, ice hockey, cycling, sailing. Emotionally: unfortunately I have to work to ‘not care’ about people or situations which may end painfully. Along the lines of ‘attachment is the source of suffering’, so best to avoid it or limit its scope. Sad though because it could also be the source of great joy. Is it worth the risk?“
–Rainer
“It's time for my heart to be nurtured on one level yet contained on another. To go easy on me and to allow my feelings to be validated, not judged harshly. On the other hand, to let the heart rule with equanimity and not lead the mind and body around like a master.”
–Suzanne
“I spend time thinking of everything I am grateful for, and I try to develop my ability to express compassion for myself and others without reservation. I take time to do the things I need to do to keep myself healthy and happy. This includes taking experiential workshops, fostering relationships, and participating within groups which have a similar interest to become a more compassionate and fulfilled being.“
–Peter
“Self-forgiveness for my own judgments. And oh yeah, coming to Esalen.”
–David B.
“Hmm, this is a tough one! I guess I take care of my heart through fostering relationships with people I feel connected to. Spending quality time with them (whether we're on the phone, through messages/letters, on Zoom, or in-person). Being there for them, listening to them, sharing what's going on with me, my struggles and my successes... like we do in the Esalen weekly Friends of Esalen Zoom sessions!”
–Lori
“I remind myself in many ways of the fact that " Love is all there is!" LOVE is the prize and this one precious life is the stage we get to learn our lessons. I get out into nature, hike, camp, river kayak, fly fish, garden, I create, I dance (not enough!), and I remain grateful for each day, each breath, each moment. Being in the moment, awake, and remembering the gift of life and my feeling of gratitude for all of creation.”
–Steven
“My physical heart by limiting stress and eating a heart-healthy diet. My emotional heart by staying in love with the world and by knowing that all disappointment and loss will pass.“
–David Z.
Today, September 29, is World Heart Day. Strike up a conversation with your own heart and as you feel comfortable, encourage others to do the same. As part of our own transformations and self-care, we sometimes ask for others to illuminate and enliven our hearts or speak our love language.
What if we could do this for ourselves too, even if just for today… or to start a heart practice, forever?
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